The National Weather Service is upgrading its weather balloon technology and phasing out an iconic white dome that marked the ...

A round of expected layoffs in addition to last month's cuts at NOAA, the nation's weather, ocean, and fisheries agency, will ...

But it’s not the balloon itself, it’s the instrument package that the balloon carries high into the sky, and that instrument pack is called a radiosonde. A radiosonde consists of three sensors ...

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The first, called a radiosonde, measures wind direction and speed, humidity, temperature, and pressure, and is used daily by the National Weather Service. The other sensor, an anemometer ...

“We are disappointed to learn that NWS staffing shortages will result in the loss of the Alaska radiosonde launch site and the devastating effects this will have on our national forecasts," said John ...

The American Meteorological Society continuously publishes research on climate, weather, and water in its 12 journals . Many of these articles are ...

The idea is to send the balloons up with a radiosonde and a GPS to track the whereabouts of the balloon to understand pressure and wind patterns during an atmospheric river. "Is this storm going ...