Hot air balloon derived winds

This dataset consists of navigational data from hot-air balloon flights and are a potential source of wind data in the atmospheric boundary layer. The data is provided on voluntary basis by professional balloonists.

The dataset was compiled for the PhD thesis with DOI: 10.18174/589639. The PhD thesis is about the application of hot air balloon tracks as a potential source of wind data in the lower kilometer of the atmosphere. Balloon flights from the archives of balloonists were studied and interesting wind patterns were explained with respect to their meteorological background. The motion of a hot air balloon was studied as well as the inertia of the balloon after changing winds. A field experiment was conducted in the Netherlands to collect data using a smartphone app, which was used to determine balloon wind data. Verification with the 200m high Cabauw tower measurements yielded positive results. Balloon dynamics were studied with an accurate wind meter mounted under the balloon basket. Next, verification and impact studies were performed with two weather models to demonstrate the applicability of the hot air balloon wind data.

Date (Publication): 2024-02-19

Edition: 2.0

Citation identifier: urn:xkdc:ds:nl.knmi::hot_air_balloon_derived_winds/2.0/

Purpose: Upper air surveying of atmospheric boundary layer wind regimes

Status: Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI)		opendata@knmi.nl	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

DG Discovery Properties Vocabulary 1.0

Wind
Boundary layer winds
GNSS
GPS
Hot air balloon
Wind shear
Lagrangian flow

Keywords

Open data

Use limitation: No use limitations

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.nl

Classification: Unclassified

Spatial representation type: Vector

Language: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2003-01-01

End date: 2018-12-31

Vertical extent

Minimum value: 10

Reference system identifier: http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4326

Distribution format

Name	Version
ASCII	1.0

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI)		opendata@knmi.nl	Point of contact

Transfer size: 10

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
landingpage	https://dataplatform.knmi.nl/catalog/datasets/index.html?x-dataset=hot_air_balloon_derived_winds&x-dataset-version=2.0	KNMI Data Platform

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Quantitative result

Value: data provided for occasional hot air balloon flights

Statement: raw data GPS sensor

Metadata

File identifier: fa4b4928-ca6a-11ee-8a7e-3ce9f7462b93 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2024-11-01T07:35:06.997Z

Metadata standard name: ISO 19115

Metadata standard version: ISO 19115:2003 NL Kernset 1.3 KNMI 2.1.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI)		opendata@knmi.nl	Point of contact

Other language

Language	Character encoding
Dutch; Flemish
English	UTF8

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