rocketsonde
An instrument package carried aloft by a meteorological rocket to make a measure one or more weather elements in a sounding of the upper atmosphere, at altitudes usually higher than can be obtained by radiosonde or aircraft.
ROCKETSONDE A type of radiosonde that is shot into the atmosphere by a rocket, allowing it to collect data during its parachute descent from a higher position in the atmosphere than a balloon could reach.
rocketsonde—A type of radiosonde launched by a rocket and making its measurements during a parachute descent; capable of obtaining soundings to a much greater height than possible by balloon or aircraft.
The climate data that NCDC receives are from a wide variety of sources, including satellites, radar, remote sensing systems, NWS cooperative observers, aircraft, ships, radiosonde, wind profiler, rocketsonde, solar radiation networks, ...
Aerology studies the Ozone layer, atmospheric currents, climate and environment effects of the whole atmosphere. Methods include satellites, rocketsondes, radiosondes, weather balloons, and laser instruments.
The totality of large-scale organized motion for the entire global atmosphere.
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meteorological rocket"A rocket designed primarily for routine upper-air observation (as opposed to research) in the lower 80 km of the atmosphere, but especially that region above 30 km inaccessible to balloons. See rocketsonde.
rocketsonde A rocket-borne instrument for measurement and transmission of upper-air meteorological data in the lower 76,000 meters (250,000 feet) of the atmosphere, especially that portion inaccessible to radiosonde techniques.
Rocketsonde (meteorological rocket) A rocket designed primarily for routine upper air observations in the lower 250,000 feet of the atmosphere, especially that portion inaccessible to balloons (above 100,000 feet).
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