Radio soundings and weather prediction

• Book ID: 104131940
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1939
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 164 KB
• Volume: 227
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(39)90728-3

✦ Synopsis

The past year has seen the transformation of the radio sonde (variously referred to as radio meteorograph or radio telemeter) from an experimental apparatus, requiring individual handling, into a commercial product, reasonably priced because of the application of mass production methods, and capable of meeting rigorous performance specifications under field operating conditions. Beginning June I, I938 , the Navy Department inaugurated routine use of the radio sonde at the Naval Air Station, Washington, D. C., and during July 1938 the Weather Bureau began routine operation at Nashville,