horizontal sounding balloon
horizontal sounding balloon see weather balloon .
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Lost and found: a weather balloon.
Magazine article from: Highlights for Children; 5/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...a few hours, the balloon gets so stretched...over the world launch weather balloons twice every day...hundred miles from the weather station. Each balloon carries a radiosonde...Mail it back to the weather station to be used...
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Launched twice daily from Green Bay, weather balloons travel to the fringes of the atmosphere to gather data; Flying for a forecast
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 3/16/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...to return the instrument package to the National Weather Service so it can be reused. Only one out of five weather balloon instruments is returned. Fleegel suspects most of the weather balloons launched from Green Bay, the only launch site in...
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Business Deflates for Totowa, N.J.-Based Weather-Balloon Manufacturer.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 1/27/2002; 700+ words
; ...the meteorological balloon. Over the years, new technology allowed the balloons to withstand temperatures...balloons to use for weather forecasting and as...parachute for when the balloon bursts, he says. "For weather forecasts that are...three-fourths of the Weather Service's ...
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Weather balloon makes landing at county home
Newspaper article from: The Topeka Capital-Journal; 5/1/1999; ; 577 words
; ...than a small piece of balloon with the instruments." That is because weather balloons usually pop once they...decreases enough for the balloon to explode. A small...back to the National Weather Service, although...Most of Billard's weather balloons blow to the east...
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Balloon's advanced instruments evaluating weather over Tucson.
Newspaper article from: AZ Daily Star (Tucson, AZ); 6/5/2007; 700+ words
; ...5-foot-diameter helium balloon will soar from a University...station that could improve weather forecasts and speed up hazardous...able to do anything about the weather, but with the new weather balloons and instruments, meteorologists...
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Weather balloon launched from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical U.
News Wire article from: University Wire; 2/8/2005; ; 500 words
; ...Arizona Near Space Research, a weather balloon containing a GPS transceiver...to inflate the 6 foot diameter balloon with helium. "The National Weather Service uses hydrogen to fill their weather balloons, but helium is cheaper," explained...
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New weather balloons aim for better hurricane data
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 9/26/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...hoping to bring the cost of the balloons down to a few hundred dollars...meteorology, filled their first balloon in a conference room, a tank...hissing as they checked the balloon was inflating properly. Lee...she'd only filled up party balloons before, and they don't...On the Net: NOAA's ...
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Weather Balloon Launched from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical U.
News Wire article from: University Wire; 2/7/2005; ; 504 words
; ...Arizona Near Space Research, a weather balloon containing a GPS transceiver...to inflate the 6 foot diameter balloon with helium. "The National Weather Service uses hydrogen to fill their weather balloons, but helium is cheaper," explained...
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Forecasters are thrown off by lost weather balloon
Newspaper article from: The Topeka ; 10/10/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Oklahoma. A weather balloon. And when it didn...predict that night's weather. It's Murphy's...all over the world, weather balloons are released on cue...m. they released a weather balloon at Norman...something went wrong. The balloon rose into the sky and...middle of ...
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Kaysam gets boost from pact.(weather balloon contract)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Rubber & Plastics News; 4/8/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...NOAA to manufacture weather balloons but it ran...domestic manufacturer of weather balloons, he said. However...government rules, almost any balloon maker in virtually any...manufacturer of meteorological balloons, he maintained, which...Kaysam also makes weather ...
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Weather Balloon
Book article from: World of Earth Science
...invention of the weather balloon inaugurated the...sources. Use of weather balloons is now common in...agencies use weather balloon flights to model...make more accurate weather predictions. Weather balloons are used widely...
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weather balloon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the vertical ascent of the balloon through the atmosphere or...aircraft instruments, with weather balloons augmenting the data. Helium...is usually used to inflate weather balloons. A pilot balloon is a small balloon (diameter...
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Balloon
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science
...reached the limits of manned balloon trips without special protection...1902, de Bort launched 236 balloons with instruments designed...in 1961. Applications of balloon flight Balloons are used today primarily for...information needed for making weather forecasts and for scientific...
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ceiling balloon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
ceiling balloon see weather balloon .
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pilot balloon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
pilot balloon see weather balloon .
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