The
Balloon Sonde Tropical Tropopause
Experiment (BaTTREX) is a proposed program of
coordinated balloon soundings in the tropical western Pacific Warm Pool in 2013
and 2014. BATTREX soundings will provide high-resolution profiles of
temperature, winds, water vapor, ozone and ice particles for investigations of
the processes that govern stratosphere-troposphere exchange and dehydration in
the tropics.
BaTTREX is envisioned as international
collaborative effort between university and government scientists from the
United States, Japan, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Indonesia.
Details
of the scientific program and the resources required to achieve the science
goals are described in the BaTTREX Science Plan below (see link below).