This may surprise you, but weather balloons launched by the National Weather Service are one of the most critical elements in the creation of weather forecasts, and they have been since the 1930s. But ...

NOAA staffing cuts have caused the indefinite suspension of radiosonde launches at three upper-air stations, with more expected. Radiosondes are balloon-borne instruments that measure atmospheric ...

Some retirees take up fly fishing. Others pick up golf. But when Roland—or “F5ZV,” as he’s known on ham radio—left his job in Belfort, France a decade ago, he devoted his newfound leisure to a far ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- There has been a lot of curiosity about what exactly is flying over us in the sky. Did you know the National Weather Service launches more than 60,000 weather balloons into the ...

Radiosondes – the telemetry packages carried aloft by sounding balloons for atmospheric weather data measurements – are regularly used by weather bureaus around the world to collect data, and there ...

Meteorological organisations across the world launch weather balloons on a regular basis as a part of their work in predicting whether or not it will rain on the weekend. Their payloads are called ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Weather balloons play a crucial role in helping meteorologists gather detailed information about our atmosphere. They are launched twice daily from nearly 900 sites worldwide, ...

A Chinese spy balloon spotted over American skies has people across the country turning to Google to find out more. The balloon was spotted over Montana, at which time Pentagon officials considered ...

But none is of greater importance than the radiosonde. What’s a radiosonde? Well, you will find the answer at the Royal School of Artillery at Larkhill on Salisbury Plain. It is from here that the Met ...

The city of Atlanta was temporarily on alert this week when a suspicious package was found near the Capitol building in Georgia's largest city. The headlines on Thursday May 17th were talking about a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract ABSTRACT A new method to estimate radiosonde temperature biases using radio occultation measurements as a reference has been developed. The ...