George squeezed into the seat by the dropsonde console.    From Wordnik.com.  [Typhoon Season]

Like the name implies, a dropsonde is dropped out of the plane and it falls to the ocean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emanuel 2005 #3 « Climate Audit] Reference

Captain Steve, you drop that dropsonde, as you called it, into the hurricane and it ` s not torn apart?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2005] Reference

Re #101 Yes, there has been a lot of work to correlate Dvorak results with actual measurements aircraft, dropsonde, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emanuel – Pacific Adjustments « Climate Audit] Reference

The dark line is the official wind speed estimate while each symbol represents a measurement aircraft, satellite, surface, dropsonde, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hurricanes 2007 « Climate Audit] Reference

Re #16 Bob, I think what they usually did was to fly into the center of a hurricane and then use a dropsonde to measure the center pressure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emanuel 2005 #3 « Climate Audit] Reference

In fact, today it is not uncommon for the dropsonde pressures to suggest one windspeed while the aircraft flight level observations suggest a different windspeed and the satellite appearance suggests a third.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emanuel 2005 #3 « Climate Audit] Reference

This dropsonde also directly measured a wind speed of 64 kt at 10 m, but post-storm analysis of the vertical profile suggests that this single observation was more likely a gust and not representative of the maximum sustained surface wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2006 Hurricane Season « Climate Audit] Reference

As mentioned earlier, I am concerned that the storm sizes aerial extents used in VK07 are too large for short-duration and early-stage storms, thus over-estimating the extent to which these small storms would have been detected prior to our modern satellite/dropsonde/doppler era.    From Wordnik.com.  [YTD Hurricane Activity « Climate Audit] Reference

Therefore, I predict 12 named and 4 major, with at least one of the named storms coming in mid to late November with a non-tropical origin, and at least one “major” being called such based on satellite values alone despite no dropsonde data indicating anything close to Class 3 winds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Atlantic Hurricane Track Versions « Climate Audit] Reference

Errol Korn, seated left, deploys a dropsonde experiment over the.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

During the flight, Errol Korn deployed a dropsonde experiment over the Gulf of Mexico during the flight as Janel Thomas, a University of Maryland Baltimore County graduate student looked on.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

The hurricane turned north-northeastward and accelerated toward the southwest coast of Florida as it began to intensify rapidly; dropsonde measurements indicate that Charley's central pressure fell from 964 mb to 941 mb in 4.5 hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories] Reference

George’s head banged against the dropsonde console.    From Wordnik.com.  [Typhoon Season]

A dropsonde at 0832 UTC provided a surface wind estimate, derived from the mean wind over the lowest 150 m of the sounding labeled LLM’ in Fig. 2, of 56 kt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2006 Hurricane Season « Climate Audit] Reference

Dvorak’s method is best used when air recon is unavailable; there were many times where our calculations had to be adjusted significantly when dropsonde data or surface data became available.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hurricanes – What to Adjust « Climate Audit] Reference

It's called the dropsonde.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2005] Reference

A dropsonde.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2005] Reference

These are surface, aircraft, dropsonde, satellite, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Curry on Landsea 1993 « Climate Audit] Reference