Special companies are now gathering weather data for Noaa

In contrast, the balloons of WindBorne can collect and distribute data from remote areas. This makes it more air -conditioned, especially useful to monitor weather rivers that bring maximum rains to coastal areas. “I would like to see them in a set of control systems.”

Dean said that the company publishes about 100 balloons from six launch sites worldwide, which is part of the 92 sites that NOAA runs, but it aims to expand to launch up to 10,000 balloons worldwide over the next five years.

Cortis Marshall, director of the NWS commercial data program, wrote in an email, that WindBorne data is less expensive than Radiosonde data “on the basis of each monitoring or on the basis of each station”, Cortis Marshall, director of the NWS commercial data program, wrote in an e -mail.

Din said that although its data is now free and open to the public, as the company expands, it wants to curb some of the information that it collects for 48 hours so that it can sell it to buyers from the private sector. This data will not be useful for other predictors.

It is difficult to replace old school technology for radio

Radio half collects one vertical image – a line from the Earth level to the point where the balloon explodes – from data in the air, which is important to understand climate change signals. On the contrary, WindBorne Balloons of Thousands of Data points, at different altitudes, through a horizontal extension. Their path is somewhat dedicated, determined by the place where the wind blows, while the radio devices collect data in a line that rises from a location that remains as it is for every launch.

Although the WindBorne’s lack of a fixed path does not matter the prediction in the short term, it may be important to understand the long -term changes on the climate, which is currently based on contracts of the vertical profile data collected in the same place. WindBorne data will not be comparable to this historic record.

“We have a very clean climate record that allows us to talk about how climate change,” she said. “If all the radio disappears, it will be difficult to know what has been changed, and what it attributes to technology in exchange for what actually happened in the air.”

“There are ways to move to new devices

Marshall wrote that NWS is not moving to replace radio devices – so far – but in the “early stages” of planning a new group of upper air control systems that will provide data “very similar to the Radiosonde Feder”.

The new monitoring systems of balloons and drones will come commercially run, and “our federal balloon will complete.”

However, Austin Tindel, one of the founders of the magician, said a wind that generates winds, said that officials within NOAA are asking him increasingly asking, “How can it be a real alternative to radio owners.”

He said, “It was a vital transformation recently, as it happened a lot.”

WindBorne dean refused to respond when asked if he had had similar conversations.

“The Noaa partnership with WindBorne” can be completely or up (this means an additional addition instead of an alternative), but people have no lot of confidence in the broader strategy of the NOAA weather Foundation, based on everything that happened. ” advertisement It ended permanently – with only five days – The satellite program for vital microwave Used to predict hurricanes.