Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/09/25
By: Wang Shu-fen and Elizabeth Hsu
Taipei, Sept. 25 (CNA) Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau will attempt to track an approaching typhoon
From Central Weather Bureau website
on Monday, the day before the storm is forecast to sweep through the island, the bureau said Sunday.
It will undertake a six-hour observation mission starting at 5 a.m. when an aircraft takes off from Taichung Airport to drop radiosondes with parachutes into the peripheral winds of Typhoon Megi and along its projected course, the bureau said.
The mission will be the 76th time Taiwan has carried out a typhoon observation project with parachuted radiosondes. The project, named “Dropwindsonde Observation for Typhoon Surveillance near the Taiwan Region (DOTSTAR),” is also known as “Wind Chasing.”
According to the weather bureau, the mission will be performed by an Astra jet airplane, which will fly up to an altitude of 13,000 meters before releasing the parachute radiosondes. [FULL STORY]
