anchor balloon

From Glossary of Meteorology

A super-pressure balloon suspended below a zero-pressure balloon to permit the zero-pressure balloon to survive night-time cooling without the expenditure of ballast and daytime warming without release of lifting gas.
The lift decreases during ascent and decreases during descent, providing stability to the zero- pressure balloon.

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