Weather Resources

Weather Balloons Asia

Upper Air Links
Balloon Technology Database – The Goddard Library
Balloons Sample the Weather – The Weather Doctor’s Weather Almanac
Ballooning and Meteorology in the Twentieth Century – U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission
Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility – NASA, Palestine, Texas
Examples of Launches of Instrumented Balloons in Storms – Thunderstorm Electrification and Lightning Experiment
Exploring the Atmosphere: Kites and Balloons – NOAA Photo Library
Federal Meteorological Handbook No. 3 – Rawinsonde and Pibal Observations – FCM-H3-1997
How to Read Hodographs – College of DuPage
Interpreting Upper Level Observation Symbols – University of Illinois
NASA Balloon Program Office – Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia
Radiosonde Measurement of the Weather – National Weather Service, Silver Spring, MD
Radiosonde Observations Factsheet – National Weather Service, Gray/Portland, Maine
Upper Air Sounding Details – Unisys Weather
www.pilotballoon.com – Martin Brenner, California State University Long Beach

Upper Air Data
Arctic Upper-Air Meteorological Data Archive
College of DuPage
National Center for Atomspheric Research (NCAR)
Ohio State University
Unisys Weather
University of Wyoming

Miscellaneous Related
Balloon Lift With Lighter Than Air Gases – University of Hawaii
Photographs From Near Space – Project Icarus

Supplies
Airgas – US distributor of industrial, medical, and specialty gases and related equipment
Rocketman – High altitude balloon payload recovery parachutes
Simple Homemade Balloon Filling Device