{"id":1274,"date":"2024-10-28T08:23:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T12:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2024-10-28T10:27:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T14:27:06","slug":"alex-and-scientists-at-whoi-launch-weather-balloons-in-support-of-wfip3-field-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/alex-and-scientists-at-whoi-launch-weather-balloons-in-support-of-wfip3-field-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex and scientists at WHOI launch weather balloons in support of WFIP3 Field Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex and a team of various scientists at WHOI collected atmospheric soundings at Woods Hole weather station (on WHOI&#8217;s Village Campus) from 15 July through 28 July and 21 September through 4 October via 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>) field campaign. The data is being used to better understand behavior of lower atmospheric winds and boundary layer clouds in the near shore and offshore region.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1267 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2024\/10\/Alex_balloon-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2024\/10\/Alex_balloon-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2024\/10\/Alex_balloon-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2024\/10\/Alex_balloon-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2024\/10\/Alex_balloon-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2024\/10\/Alex_balloon-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1276\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2024\/10\/IMG_8501-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2024\/10\/IMG_8501-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2024\/10\/IMG_8501-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2024\/10\/IMG_8501-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2024\/10\/IMG_8501-864x1536.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2024\/10\/IMG_8501-1152x2048.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2024\/10\/IMG_8501-scaled.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1278\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2024\/08\/Vaisala-software-soundings-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2024\/08\/Vaisala-software-soundings-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2024\/08\/Vaisala-software-soundings-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2024\/08\/Vaisala-software-soundings-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2024\/08\/Vaisala-software-soundings-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2024\/08\/Vaisala-software-soundings-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex and a team of various scientists at WHOI collected atmospheric soundings at Woods Hole weather station (on WHOI&#8217;s Village Campus) from 15 July through 28 July and 21 September through 4 October via weather balloon launches as a part of the Wind Forecast Improvement Project 3 (WFIP3, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/wfip3\/) field campaign. The data is being&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\/1274"}],"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=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tropical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}