Radiosondelike
Radiosondelike is an adjective used in meteorology and atmospheric science to describe instrumentation, data products, or measurement approaches that resemble the outputs or functions of a radiosonde but are not specific to traditional balloon-borne sondes. The term derives from radiosonde, the instrument package launched by weather balloons to record temperature, humidity, pressure, and wind as a function of altitude, and the suffix -like indicating resemblance.
Radiosondelike systems may include ground-based remote sensing, aircraft- or drone-mounted sensor packages, or portable instruments that
Applications encompass calibration and validation of remote sensing products, initialization and verification of numerical weather prediction
Differences from radiosondes include platform and data-collection methods, altitude range, and sampling frequency. Radiosondes provide in
See also: Radiosonde, Atmospheric profiling, Remote sensing, Lidar wind profiler.