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Record 1,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 CONT

A radiosonde carried by a balloon rising at a few meters per second does not measure such inversions accurately because the response time of the thermistor is several seconds. To quantify this error, we flew a radiosonde on a tethered kite on several occasions in winter at South Pole Station immediately prior to the routine launch of the same sonde on a weather balloon. In all cases, the equilibrated temperatures measured by the tethered sonde at a given pressure level were higher than those from the balloon-borne sonde throughout most of the inversion layer. Assuming that the tethered sonde data represent the true atmospheric temperature profile, a procedure can be developed to correct the temperature data from routine radiosonde soundings for the finite response time of the thermistor.  1, record 1, English, - tethered%20sonde

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Sur le modèle de «ballon captif».  1, record 1, French, - sonde%20captive

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 2 OBS

ballon captif : aérostat retenu par un câble.  2, record 1, French, - sonde%20captive

Record 1,  Textual support,  Spanish