{"id":629,"date":"2009-08-31T16:25:31","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T22:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/?p=629"},"modified":"2014-09-03T10:03:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T16:03:01","slug":"weather-balloons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/2009\/08\/weather-balloons\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather balloons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-629 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/09\/Balloon.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/09\/Balloon-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-630\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-630'>\n\t\t\t\tNCAR and NCSU will launch instrumented balloons to measure the pre-storm environment and help refine the V2 forecast\/target for each day.  They will also measure pre-existing boundaries, and their interactions with the storms, and also storm-environment interactions.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/09\/MGAUS.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/09\/MGAUS-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-635\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-635'>\n\t\t\t\tNCSU and NCAR will launch a total of 267 balloons from these mobile ballooning facilities.  Mobile ballooning facilities will launch balloons with instruments, or sondes, attached in key parts of the supercell.  The sondes will measure temperature, pressure, relative humidity and winds.  The data will be transmitted back to the Field Command vehicle.  Credit:  NCAR\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/09\/P5080071.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/09\/P5080071-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/09\/P4260169.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/09\/P4260169-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/09\/IMG_39631.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/09\/IMG_39631-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-632\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-632'>\n\t\t\t\tBill Brown (NCAR) and Adam French (NCSU) prepare a balloon for launching.  They have perfected the process down to about 8 minutes.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/09\/IMG_39661.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/09\/IMG_39661-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-633\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-633'>\n\t\t\t\tAfter any particles and dust have been cleaned off the instrument, it is attached to the balloon.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/09\/IMG_3967.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/09\/IMG_3967-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-634\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-634'>\n\t\t\t\tThe balloon is about to be released, and a receiver on the ground records information.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/09\/IMG_2235.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/09\/IMG_2235-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-631\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-631'>\n\t\t\t\tHundreds of radiosondes (weather balloons) were launched to sample weather conditions aloft during VORTEX2.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-v2-instruments","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/vortex2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}