Weather balloon: the source for obtaining weather data in the upper atmosphere

Weather of Arabia - Have you ever wondered how meteorologists obtain weather data from the upper atmosphere of the globe?

The answer to that is that they use what is known as a (weather balloon), so what are the characteristics of this balloon and how it obtains weather data and where it can reach its height?

The weather balloon is made of leather materials with a high degree of elasticity to help expand it during the rise from the surface of the earth to high altitudes in the atmosphere. The balloon is filled with hydrogen gas to gradually expand its size and reach about 100 times its original size, which helps it to reach a height of 40 kilometers on least before it explodes into the atmosphere.

The balloon carries on board a special device called a radiosound that measures atmospheric pressure, humidity and temperature in the upper atmosphere. In addition, scientists' follow-up to radio sound movements helps in knowing the speed and direction of the wind at those altitudes.

The process of launching this balloon is only allowed for civil and military government agencies, where approximately 1,800 balloons are released from 900 different regions around the world in a unified time (that is, twice daily at 12 noon and 12 midnight GMT), the unified time enables weather experts From entering this data to numerical prediction models, which would raise the accuracy of these predictions issued by these models.

In the Arab world, there are many monitoring stations that use (radiosund), where the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia alone has more than 10 meteorological stations that use this method, and there are many stations in Kuwait, the Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Egypt and Jordan Algeria and Morocco, while there are no radio stations at all in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Bahrain, Sudan, Libya and Tunisia.

As for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the Meteorological Department is responsible for launching this balloon on a daily basis, as the department owns a special station for this purpose located in the Mafraq area, and it releases this balloon at 00:00 GMT on a daily basis.

In the end, we present to you an amazing video that shows the process of a weather balloon exploding and the accompanying photographic lens journey through the depths of the Earth's atmosphere: