Wind-finding

From Glossary of Meteorology



wind-finding

The process of determining upper-air winds represented by the in-flight movement of a radiosonde balloon, either by tracking the radiosonde from the ground using a radio theodolite or by the radiosonde itself using radio signals from aids to navigation (i.e., Loran, GPS, etc.).


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