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Noun- A radiosonde that is tracked by a radio direction-finding device to determine the velocity of winds aloft.

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  • Part of the problem back then was they way the models interpolated the atmosphere between rawinsonde stations.
  • And finally, the satellite data was not very helpful unless there was a rawinsonde sounding nearby to anchor the information.
  • You can see the effects of desert summer heating quite clearly when viewing a sonding from one of the high desert rawinsonde stations in California.
  • Another thing that has bothered me with the Mann’s temperature spike during the last 50 years of the 20th century, is the lack of supporting data with relation to what has been...
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