Meteorology (WEATHER & CLIMATE) with Marshall Shepherd
Ologies with Alie Ward
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Weather Balloons - What's a Quasi-Geotropic Approximation?
i went to the american meteorological society's glossary terms and i brought this back in my little basket for us so a quasi-geostrophic theory is a theory of atmospheric dynamics that involves the quasi- geostrophic approximation. We have had some issues with the national weather service now but one thing that really helps us out is some we can get some of the same kind of information from satellites these days that we can get from weather balloons. In some ways the satellites are better because we can get coverage and work consistently and over many other places with a weather balloon.
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