Balloon theodolite
The lateral and vertical movements of a weather balloon are observed and measured with the balloon theodolite . The respective height and coordinates of the balloon are determined from the measured values of the trajectory and the strength and direction of the high-altitude wind at different altitudes are derived from this.
The data is important for air traffic and military weather reports. The company FW Breithaupt & Sohn developed the electronic balloon theodolite Tebal in cooperation with the German Weather Service in 1989 . The elaborate theodolite observation was also replaced by GPS probes on the weather balloon.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wind data determination
- ↑ To the same magazine of the artillery troop 2/2019, p. 85