The satellite record regarding atmospheric temperatures is independently confirmed by weather balloons.
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And data collected at the surface, whether land or sea, seem to tell a different story from those taken at altitude by weather balloons.
So he came up with a plan to tie weather balloons to his chair and bring a pellet gun with him to shoot the balloons when he needed to hasten his descent.
At the VLA (that centre of government radio telescopy) they will tell you that around the time of the crash, the US government was sending up special high-altitude weather balloons made of a then-classified material.
The state-funded Met Office, which bills itself as "one of the top two national weather services in the world, " is in overdrive, sending extra weather balloons into the atmosphere to try to get a read on what's to come and providing daily updates to government officials and other Olympics honchos.
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Let us explain: Apparently some regions in the South and West aren't as wired as midtown Manhattan, so a company called Space Data found a way to make money by repeatedly launching weather balloons with cellular transmitters called SkySites, and charging what must be astronomical fees for getting your cell-on in the boonies.
Studies have compared all the different types of observations (including surface weather stations, balloons and aeroplanes, etc) ingested in weather models and found that Metop data makes the largest contribution to the accuracy of 24-hour lookahead, at around 25%.
However, balloons are at the mercy of the weather they are intended to monitor: they can travel only with the wind, rather than where meteorologists would like them to go.
And, of course, the weather function is important for the military, particularly over areas where you don't have balloons going up and down and people watching it that are friendly.
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