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The results of N2O analysis from stratospheric air samples collected during a balloon flight over Southern France are presented. The air samples were collected by means of two cryogenic samplers flown together for the first time on a single balloon flight to test contamination of the sampling tubes and to collect a larger number of samples. N20 mixing ratios obtained using two different gas chromatographic techniques showed very good agreement, within 3% for most of the samples. They did not show any contamination effect in any of the sample tubes. The N2O mixing ratio profile obtained from this flight reveals steplike features around 16, 22 and 27 km height. These structures are likely to be due to dynamical processes at these height regions.
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Lal, S., Borchers, R., Fabian, P. (1985). Structures in the Vertical Profile of Nitrous Oxide Measured Over a Mid Latitude Station. In: Zerefos, C.S., Ghazi, A. (eds) Atmospheric Ozone. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5313-0_27
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