Yohan Hadji, an EPFL master's student, has developed a solution to this problem—a new type of radiosonde that can automatically fly back to a predetermined spot. His device was tested by the ...

With the recent government staffing cuts, there has been a need to indefinitely suspend radiosondes at three upper-air stations.

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 ...

They expand as they rise to about 20 feet in diameter. An instrument called a radiosonde — which is about the size of a juice box — is attached to the balloon to measure pressure, temperature ...

Both the burst balloon and the radiosonde then fall back to the earth, most often landing in remote places like forests or oceans where they simply become trash. According to Switzerland's EPFL ...

Balloons are inflated to 5 feet in diameter with a rope tied at the base leading to a radiosonde at the bottom of the rope. Radiosondes weigh less than a pound and contain instruments that obtain ...

Twice a day, right up the road at the National Weather Service in Wilmington, a balloon filled with hydrogen gas is equipped with a radiosonde and is launched into the upper atmosphere.

Weather forecasts in Texas and across the United States, which have been critical for public safety during active storm seasons, will be impaired by more cuts to upper-air data collection, a move ...