Physics
Scientific paper
Mar 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001georl..28..959n&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 28, Issue 6, p. 959-962
Physics
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Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Aerosols And Particles, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Middle Atmosphere-Composition And Chemistry, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Middle Atmosphere-Constituent Transport And Chemistry
Scientific paper
A high-altitude aircraft flight on April 18, 1997, detected an enormous aerosol cloud at 20 km altitude near California (37°N). Not visually observed, the cloud had high concentrations of soot and sulfate aerosol, and was over 180 km in horizontal extent. The cloud was probably a large hydrocarbon-fueled rocket vehicle, most likely burning liquid oxygen and kerosene. One of two Russian Soyuz rockets could have produced the cloud: a launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on April 6; or one from Plesetsk, Russia on April 9. Parcel trajectories and long-lived trace gas concentrations suggest the Baikonur launch as the cloud source. Cloud trajectories do not trace the Soyuz plume from Asia to North America, illustrating the uncertainties of point-to-point trajectories. This cloud encounter is the only stratospheric measurement of a hydrocarbon-fueled rocket.
Brock Charles A.
Bui Paul T.
Lait Leslie R.
Loewenstein Michael
Newman Paul A.
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