Why do you want to release white balloons when the typhoon strikes?

In order to better capture the original data of typhoon. During the typhoon landing, several videos of "Balloons in a Typhoon" attracted people's attention. Bian Yun, a meteorological engineer of China Meteorological Bureau, said that flying sounding balloons is a part of daily meteorological observation, which can capture more and better first-hand typhoon data. Since 10, many videos have been circulated in Weibo. Most of them are staff of three or four weather stations holding a big white balloon released in a storm. Many netizens left messages asking some questions, such as "Why do you want to fly balloons on a typhoon day" and "What's the point of flying balloons".

The released white balloon is called "sounding balloon" in the meteorological industry. This balloon takes the probe to high altitude and measures meteorological factors such as temperature, atmospheric pressure, humidity, wind speed and wind direction. He said that balloons are an important tool for human beings to study the stratosphere and can obtain various meteorological data at different altitudes. The detector has the advantages of low investment, low cost, quick effect, large relative load, long flight time, stable attitude of carrying instruments, high accuracy of observation data, short time, great flexibility and no influence from regional and climatic factors.

"The typhoon is large in scale and wide in influence, and it looks extremely dangerous. But they have the opportunity to release the air probe ball on the premise of mastering the wind direction and skills. " Bian Yun said that flying balloons are part of daily meteorological observation. "Radar can be used to track the position of balloons and obtain real-time meteorological data for meteorological observation. You can capture more and better typhoon raw data. "

In the face of natural forces, human beings can use scientific and technological means to predict the coming of disasters and minimize the losses caused by disasters.