All photos courtesy of Steve Williams. Please click images for full resolution.
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HIPLEX Project Sign at the Big Springs Municipal Airport
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West Texas desert near Snyder, Texas
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Steve Williams servicing a HIPLEX surface mesonet station
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A Stevenson Instrument Shelter as part of a HIPLEX surface mesonet station
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Steve Williams servicing a hygrothermograph at a HIPLEX surface mesonet station
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A Stevenson Instrument Shelter housing a hygrothermograph and Microbrarograph
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Gordon Grant servicing a MRI wind station as part of a HIPLEX surface mesonet station
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Steve Williams taking extreme measures to a non-working MRI wind station!
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The interior and chart of a MRI wind station. Wind speed was recorded by cumulative “wind runs”
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Birds love the 10m wind towers!
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A Stevenson Instrument Shelter at the end of the Rainbow!
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A General Meteorological Device (GMD) radiosonde tracking antenna
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A General Meteorological Device (GMD) radiosonde tracking antenna
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A General Meteorological Device (GMD) radiosonde tracking antenna
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VIZ radiosondes ready for release
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Jerry Guynes filling and preparing a 600 gm weather balloon
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Jerry Guynes ready to release a weather balloon. Note the balloon deformation in the strong West Texas wind!
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Jerry Guynes ready to release a weather balloon. Note the balloon deformation in the strong West Texas wind!
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Weather balloon release from Lake Spence near Robert Lee, Texas
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Weather balloon release from Lake Spence near Robert Lee, Texas
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Weather balloon release from Lake Spence near Robert Lee, Texas
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Weather balloon release from Lake Spence near Robert Lee, Texas
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Weather balloon release from Lake Spence near Robert Lee, Texas
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Jerry Guynes tuning the GMD radiosonde tracking unit
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Steve Williams monitoring the GMD TMQ-5 unit radiosonde tracking chart
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Bob Soptei taking a humidity measurement using a sling psychrometer at Post, Texas
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(L to R) Bob Soptei and Pete Reynolds preparing for a radiosonde release at Post, Texas
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Pete Reynolds tuning the GMD radiosonde tracking unit at Post, Texas
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Pete Reynolds tuning the GMD radiosonde tracking unit at Post, Texas
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Biomass burning in West Texas as seen from Big Springs Municipal Airport
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Weather balloon release from Big Springs Municipal Airport
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Weather balloon release from Big Springs Municipal Airport
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Weather balloon release from Big Springs Municipal Airport
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Weather balloon release from Big Springs Municipal Airport
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Weather balloon release from Big Springs Municipal Airport
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Weather balloon release from Big Springs Municipal Airport
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Weather balloon release from Big Springs Municipal Airport
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Steve Williams programming a rawinsonde data reduction program using a TI-59 Calculator.
Each HIPLEX rawinsonde station used TI-59 calculators to produce near real-time data
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A GMD Tracking Unit at the end of a Rainbow!
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