{"id":1221,"date":"2024-05-10T09:56:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T13:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2024-07-22T10:20:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T14:20:37","slug":"alex-and-whoi-scientists-launch-weather-balloons-for-the-wfip3-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/alex-and-whoi-scientists-launch-weather-balloons-for-the-wfip3-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex and WHOI scientists launch weather balloons for the WFIP3 project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From May 3\u20136, Alex and a team of WHOI scientists collected atmospheric data via soundings (also known as weather balloon launches) as a part of the Wind Forecast Improvement Project 3 (WFIP3, <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/wfip3\/\">https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/wfip3\/<\/a>). Atmospheric soundings took place every six hours from Woods Hole and from the R\/V Endeavor, which transected south to the shelf break as a part of The Northeast U.S. Shelf (NES) Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) project (<a href=\"https:\/\/nes-lter.whoi.edu\/\">https:\/\/nes-lter.whoi.edu\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>For more information about our group&#8217;s research related to WFIP3, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/boundary-layer-structures-and-frontal-systems-in-the-northeast-u-s\/\">our WFIP3 research page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1224 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2024\/05\/tempImagedrRKKW-scaled-e1721657811723-1024x759.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2024\/05\/tempImagedrRKKW-scaled-e1721657811723-1024x759.jpg 1024w, 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Atmospheric soundings took place every six hours from Woods Hole and from the R\/V Endeavor, which transected south to the shelf break&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1233,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions\/1233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}