- A
radiosonde is a battery-powered
telemetry instrument carried into the
atmosphere usually by a
weather balloon that
measures various atmospheric parameters...
- forecasting.
Surface weather observations were
taken hourly, and four
radiosonde releases occurred daily. It was also
meant to aid in
search and rescue...
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invented some of the
operating principles of a
radiosonde[citation needed]. He sent the
first Finnish radiosonde aloft in
December 1931.
After the
first sounding...
- wind
speed by
means of a small,
expendable measuring device called a
radiosonde. To
obtain wind data, they can be
tracked by radar,
radio direction finding...
-
Charles Darwin. Parsons, C. L.; Norcross, G. A.; Brooks, R. L. (1984). "
Radiosonde Pressure Sensor Performance:
Evaluation Using Tracking Radars". Journal...
- the Cold War. In 1949, the
United States government used wind data from
radiosonde balloon measurements to
determine the
likely sources of air
parcel trajectories...
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absence of
heavy metals. Water-activated
batteries have been used in
radiosondes that shouldn't
contain heavy metals since they
regularly fall to the...
-
Weather Bureau radiosonde was
launched in M****achusetts in 1937,
which prompted a
switch from
routine aircraft observation to
radiosondes within two years...
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Hodograph plot of
upper air
winds from
radiosonde...
-
Russian radiosonde in 1930,
while the
French Pierre Idrac (1885-1935) and
Robert Bureau (1892-1965) were the
first to
develop the
radiosonde in 1929....
