rawinsonden.
/ˈreɪwɪnˌsɒnd/, U.S. /ˈreɪwɪnˌsɑnd/ Meteorology.
A balloon-borne device comprising a radiosonde and a radar target which both transmits meteorological data to ground stations and permits rawin observations to be made; (also) the operation of obtaining measurements using such a device. Frequently attributive.
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ballon-sonde1898
sounding balloon1937
weather balloon1940
rawinsonde1946
1946 Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc. 27 371/1 The recent trend in practice is to combine radiosonde observations and winds-aloft observations in one operation, a Rawinsonde.
1959 Warren (Pa.) Times-Mirror 16 Sept. 2/6 The Air Force finally enlightened the public..it was a rawinsonde transmitter, a device for gathering weather data in the air.
1979 Atmospheric Environment 13 1523/2 Model calculations were made with different types of wind data: (1) the standard meteorological data available for use in the model-hourly surface observations and 12-hourly rawinsondes, [etc.].
1998 R. G. Barry & R. J. Chorley Atmosphere, Weather & Climate (ed. 7) i. 15 The atmosphere can be divided..into..well-marked horizontal layers, mainly on the basis of temperature. The evidence for this structure comes from regular rawinsonde (radar wind-sounding) balloons, radio-wave investigations,..[etc.].
2005 Agric. & Forest Meteorol. 135 206/1 The analysis process assimilates many types of observations from..aircraft, wind profilers, rawinsondes, surface stations, and satellites.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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