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    A radiosonde is a battery-powered telemetry instrument carried into the atmosphere usually by a weather balloon that measures various atmospheric parameters...
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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...
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    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...
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  • information system (GIS) Glossary of meteorology Mesonet Meteorology Radiosonde Rocketsonde Surface weather observation Timex Expedition WS4 Tropical...
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    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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  • 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...
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    Hodograph plot of upper air winds from radiosonde...
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  • in meteorology due to widely available rawinsonde|Radiosonde|rawinsonde (frequently called radiosonde) data and numerical weather forecasts that supply...
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  • There is also a network of 'upper air' stations, using radiosondes. The six main radiosonde stations in the UK are Camborne, Lerwick, Albemarle, Watnall...
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