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A weather balloon, also known as a sounding balloon, is a balloon (specifically a type of high-altitude balloon) that carries instruments to the stratosphere to send back information on atmospheric pressure, temperature, humidity and wind speed by means of a small, expendable measuring device called a radiosonde.
The first modern-day hot air balloon to be built in the United Kingdom (UK) was the Bristol Belle in 1967. Today, hot air balloons are used primarily for recreation, and there are some 7,500 hot air balloons operating in the United States. [51] The first tethered balloon in modern times was made in France at Chantilly Castle in 1994 by ...
The two men began then working on high altitude balloons for scientific purposes. In early 1892, they launched a series of small paper balloons filled with gas to become familiar with the technique. [3] On 17 September, the first documented weather balloon in history flew, with a barometer and a minimum thermometer. [2]
In 1924, Colonel William Blaire in the U.S. Signal Corps did the first primitive experiments with weather measurements from balloon, making use of the temperature dependence of radio circuits. The first true radiosonde that sent precise encoded telemetry from weather sensors was invented in France by Robert Bureau . Bureau coined the name ...
Synchronized weather balloon launches have helped meteorologists create forecasts over the past 150 years, and now the old tradition is going high tech. Twice a day - every day of the year ...
A Skyhook balloon launched in 1957 to photograph the Sun. Skyhook balloons were high-altitude balloons developed by Otto C. Winzen and General Mills, Inc.They were used by the United States Navy Office of Naval Research (ONR) in the late 1940s and 1950s for atmospheric research, especially for constant-level meteorological observations at very high altitudes.
A weather balloon launched on November 18, 2024 as part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Global Monitoring Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. The balloon will test changes in ...
Synchronized weather balloon launches have helped meteorologists create forecasts over the past 150 years, and now the old tradition is going high tech. Sensors beam data back down to Earth every ...