What Do Oceanographers Use Dropsondes for?
Taking a Cue from the Successful Use of Meteorological Balloons for Wind-Profile Measurements, Oceanographers Developed Dropsondes for Current Profile...
Taking a cue from the successful use of meteorological balloons for wind-profile measurements, oceanographers developed dropsondes for current profile measurements in the ocean. Freely falling dropsondes have been extensively used to determine vertical profiles of horizontal currents in the ocean.
What do dropsondes measure?
GPS Dropsonde
A dropsonde is a weather device that is designed to be dropped out of an aircraft at specified altitudes and due to the force of gravity, drop to the Earth. ... The dropsonde also contains pressure, temperature and humidity sensors that capture vertical profiles of atmospheric thermodynamic data.
Where do dropsondes go?
They are cylindrical packages of instruments deployed from reconnaissance aircraft every 241.4 km (150 miles) or so, usually close to the eye of the hurricane. They descend on a parachute to the surface of the sea and, as a result, typical drops last from three to five minutes.
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