Manuel Cebrian, a computational social scientist now based at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Clayton, Australia, won that challenge with his colleagues by using social media to hunt down 10 red
weather balloons released across the United States.
The weather balloon released on Friday morning from the New Orleans office of the NWS measured near all - time record levels of atmospheric moisture, higher than some measurements taken during past hurricanes.
Not exact matches
Temperature measurements retrieved from the hundreds of
balloon - borne radiosonde instruments that are
released each day by the various national
weather services provide much more detailed information on the vertical structure of atmospheric temperature changes than is available from satellites.