Some 80% of weather radiosondes—remote measurement instruments containing plastic, batteries and electronic parts—end up lost in nature after one flight. But a startup created by an EPFL master's ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Weather balloon launches in Grand Junction have been limited to one per day. On March 20, the National Weather Service issued a memo regarding the “Reduction of Radiosonde Observations (RAOB)” to one ...

In Part I of this study, monthly 2.5° gridpoint anomalies in the TIROS-N satellite series Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) channel 2 brightness temperatures during 1979–88 are evaluated with multiple ...

Some of you may have heard the term "weather balloon" before - for others, the concept may be completely new. But weather balloons impact all of our lives more than you may realize. In fact, without ...