The program objective was to produce a fully automatic weather station, capable of operating for long periods untended; the sensed data to include surface and upper atmosphere parameters, similar to the data currently being supplied by the manned weather stations throughout the world. A U.S. Navy NOMAD buoy, currently operating as a surface weather station, was modified to include a cluster of sounding rockets. Following each surface weather transmission a rocket is launched carrying a rocketsonde which commences transmissions at apogee. The data is relayed, via the buoy, to monitoring shore stations. The work reported covers the development of a prototype version. The parameters of wind speed and wind direction for the upper atmosphere were not included during this phase of the program. (Author)
Automated Weather Buoy Incorporating an Upper Air Sounding Rocket Data Subsystem
1969
60 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Meteorological Data Collection, Analysis, & Weather , Marine Engineering , Bombs , Buoys , Weather stations , Sounding rockets , Data transmission systems , Weather communications , Automatic , Upper atmosphere , Oceanology , Flight testing , Rocket launchers , Meteorology , Logic circuits , Atmospheric temperature , Barometric pressure , Humidity , Automatic weather stations , Weather buoys , NOMAD(Navy Oceanographic Meteorological Automatic Devices) , Navy oceanographic meteorological automatic devices , Rocketsondes
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