Relative Humidity & Temperature
Observe the clear stratification among low, middle and high clouds.The low clouds have a high  level of relative humidity in contrast to middle clouds.
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Water Vapor
The mixing ratio profile shows a high amount of humidity of the low clouds. Observe that middle clouds layer has a considerable width.
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Ascent rate
In this case the balloon was filled at 500 bar, for that, the ascent rate was reduced to 4.4 m/s. As usual, there was high variability in the ascent rate until 8 km.
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Balloon trajectory
For the third consecutive time, the wind below the tropopause was southeastward and above it was westward, like a shear kind.
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The principal parameters of launch preparation and flight are shown in the table below.
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