Watch & Learn How Lauching Weather Balloons Help Fire Managers Fight Difficult Wildfires from the expendable Watch Video
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Description: Watch and learn how Incident Meteorologists (IMETs) and Fire Behavior Analysts (FBANs) use the data collected from launching weather balloons to help fire managers adjust strategy and tactics in order to increase the probability of success while fighting wildfires. nnA weather or sounding balloon is a balloon (specifically a type of high altitude balloon) which carries instruments aloft to send back information on atmospheric pressure, temperature, humidity and wind speed by means of a small, ex
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