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 eliminate about one of out four jobs there since the start of the second ...

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Community members observe as Robert Rickey, science operations officer at NWS Flagstaff, launches a weather balloon during a ...

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 ...

Use of ka9q-radio allows auto_rx to monitor the entire available bandwidth of a SDR, and decode all radiosonde signals detected within that bandwidth. It uses much less CPU than SpyServer, allowing a ...

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 ...