BATAL POPS flight (July 2019)

The Printed Optical Particle Spectrometer (POPS) was operated during the BATAL (Balloon Measurements of the Asian Tropopause Aerosol Layer) campaign in 2019 in Hyderabad (17N,78E), India. The primary goal of this campaign is the investigation of the ATAL (Asian Tropopause Aerosol Layer). Here, we use POPS observations from one balloon flight on July 17th 2019 (UT time). The instrument weighs around 800g and uses a 405 mm diode laser. POPS delivers aerosol number concentration and size distribution measurements. Here the file corresponds to concentrations in each size class between 0.15 and ~3 µm.