weather balloon

基本解释

Spokesman Jim Peters said if it was a weather balloon or any kind of organized balloon release, authorities should have been notified in advance.
发言人吉姆•皮特斯表示，如果这是一个气象气球或其他释放的热气球的话，当局应该提前被告知。
That is the theory, at least. So far, apart from some low-altitude test flights, the only stratospheric tests have involved a scaled-down version tethered to a weather balloon.
这些就是目前的原理，迄今为止，除了一些在低海拔的飞行测试，唯一的平流层测试是涉及一个按比例缩小拴在气象气球上的模型。
This weather balloon will mostly measure temperature, air pressure, and wind speed, but others sample the air for the concentration of various gases like carbon dioxide and oxygen.
气象气球主要是用来测定温度，气压和风速的，另外它还能够测出空气中很多种气体的含量，例如二氧化碳和氧气等。

Satellite and weather balloon data tell us that the Earth's average temperature has fallen slightly during the last 20 years.
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a type of balloon that contains measuring instruments and that is sent into the air in order to find out information about weather conditions