We are working on researching the current radiosonde network. For this we know there are 92
locations in the United States that launch balloons twice a day. This allows for the release of 184
radiosondes daily.
Beyond this, we want to know how much does it cost for one radiosonde to be released. From here, we
can then compute the total amount of money spent on releasing balloons each day, week, month and
year.
While this may appear to complete the costs of radiosondes, we are analyzing the use of special
soundings as well in this project. Therefore, we need to find out how often special soundings are
used and under what weather conditions are they needed.
b) Adaptive Strategies
We have already researched multiple adaptive radiosonde strategies. We need to narrow our
selections down to 2 or 3 and then research these few in depth. It is our goal to find not only
possible strategies, but also the most cost-effictive ones.
c) Economic Development
We have found a research journal that specifically analyzes the economics of radiosondes by Morss
et al (2004). We will use this is a background for our personal economic development of our
research.
d) Insurance and other Private Sector Companies
We have learned that the insurance and private sector companies are willing to talk with us about
our project. This allows us to gain an understanding of how soundings benefit businesses directly.
More of this information is found under the Research tab.
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