It has everything: Lidar, helium balloons, sensors for measure winds, precipitation, air quality, and more.
In addition to lidar, the truck is loaded with instruments that can measure air temperature, air quality, humidity, and more. And, it comes stocked with 32 helium balloons containing atmospheric sensors.“Typically, we launch giant weather balloons in open fields to measure temperature and humidity up to 24 miles in the sky.
These balloons can collect information on things like humidity, temperature, and wind as they rise up, and they can radio back this data to researchers walking on the ground. Collecting more detailed information about microclimate changes from neighborhood to neighborhood, or even street to street, is important. It could inform government agencies about which
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