Mxsmanic wrote:
It's easy enough to establish measurement stations on the surface to measure
wind, temperature, visibility, etc., but what is the normal way for
meteorologists to measure these things aloft? Do they depend on PIREPs, or
expendable/recoverable probes and balloons, or satellites, or what?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorology

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/gu...fcst/home.rxml

http://www.physics.uwo.ca/~whocking/p103/instrum.html


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Jim Pennino

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