Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A radiosonde used to observe the speed and direction of upper-air winds and tracked by a radio direction-finding instrument or radar.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[ra(dar) + win(d) + (radio)sonde.]

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Examples

  • And finally, the satellite data was not very helpful unless there was a rawinsonde sounding nearby to anchor the information.

    Exponential Growth in Physical Systems « Climate Audit 2007

  • 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.

    Unthreaded #19 « Climate Audit 2007

  • Taking either pi-ball or rawinsonde soundings of the atmospheric thicknesses between say 850b and 700mb should reflect the kind of radical warming that Mann et als claim.

    Letter to NAS « Climate Audit 2006

  • Part of the problem back then was they way the models interpolated the atmosphere between rawinsonde stations.

    NAS Panel Report « Climate Audit 2006

  • 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 reported via surface an rawinsonde data.

    Letter to NAS « Climate Audit 2006

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