Targeted Wind Sensing team to give a briefing at NOAA Headquarters in Silver Spring, MD, on the summer 2004 highly successful Smart Balloon flights over the North Atlantic.

Dr. Steven Businger (University of Hawaii) gave a presentation on "The Application of the Smart Balloon in Tropospheric Research" at the American Meteorological Society meeting in San Diego, CA.

February 3, 2005 - Targeted Wind Sensing team to give a briefing on the Smart Balloon and its summer 2005 highly successful flights at NOAA Headquarters in Silver Spring, MD.

January, 2005 - Dr. Steven Businger (University of Hawaii) gave a presentation on the application of the Smart Balloon at the American Meteorological Society meeting in San Diego, Ca.

December 11, 2004 - Results of Balloon flights 2, 3, and 4 were presented at the fall American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, CA. Dr.'s Mao and Talbot discussed the data from these flights and showed numerical model simulations along the balloon flight tracks.

August 15, 2004 - Balloon #3 makes transatlantic flight over the past 12 days as it travels nearly 7,000 km.

August 5, 2004 - Balloons 3 and 4 have rendezvous with Hurricane Alex over the North Atlantic.

August 3, 2004 - Two Smart Balloons (#3 & #4) are released together.

July 20, 2004 -Smart Balloon #2 is released and it travels over the Gulf of Maine toward Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.

July 15, 2004 - Smart Balloon #1 is released and it travels northward over New England toward Maine.