sondes

The team launched 21 small tubes, called sondes, that measure temperature, humidity, wind speed and pressure as they fall to earth, working like weather balloons in reverse.

Stars and Stripes 2010

The team launched 21 small tubes, called sondes, that measure temperature, humidity, wind speed and pressure as they fall to earth, working like weather balloons in reverse.

Stars and Stripes 2010

Since 1987, icebreakers with conductivity, temperature, and depth sondes have been used to make observations.

Arctic climate variability in the twentieth century 2009

If always cutting the sondes and if they also had a temperature sensor we would get a picture of the sea temperature all the way down.

Atlantic Hurricane Track Versions « Climate Audit 2007

Hansen terminates many rural series data after 1990 even if data exist up until 2007 that can be easily seen for France, with just 43 stations used by the GISS so as a result, it masks the temperature plateau of the last decade shown by satellites, radio-sondes and even the CRU.

The Bias Method's Perfect Siberian Storm « Climate Audit 2007

Drop sondes are released from the plane to take measurement of air pressure and wind speed.

CNN Transcript Aug 20, 2007 2007

This may partly be due to the coverage of sondes used in that analysis being biased to the high latitudes since the effect of the error was principally in the tropics, or it may be because of undetected biases in the radiosonde network itself.

Lean Left » Blog Archive » No Debate On Cause of Global Warming 2006

The satellites, the radio sondes, or the ground based measurements?

Earth's climate crashes in 2013 « Climate Audit 2006

I'd pointed out that drift stations habitually carried rockets -- the only way to guide home any lost members of the party if radio communication broke down -- and radio sondes and rockoons.

Ice Station Zebra MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1963

The sondes were - radio-carrying balloons that could rise to a height of twenty miles to gather weather information; the rockoons, radio rockets fired from balloons, could rise even higher.

Ice Station Zebra MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1963