Meteorological Instruments

Announcements

Our balloon made it to 37 mb! You may download the sounding data and auxiliary files here.

The *TSPOTINT.txt file contains the complete raw sounding data (but have a look at the other files too!). The columns are labeled with units. Open the KML file in Google Earth to see the balloon's trajectory.

To draw your plots on a Stüve diagram, you may use my Excel template. You could also draw a skew T–log p diagram using other available software (e.g., SHARPpy, MetPy, etc.) if you are comfortable using other plotting tools. We drew skew T–log p diagrams using Jupyter notebooks in ATMS 203.

If you would like to see how not to launch a balloon, check out this video of the balloon getting eaten by a tree.

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