The US was already geared for war, that's what the cold war was all about. However, US tactics and machines of war had to be modified somewhat for the Vietnam War.
Meteorologists uses weather balloons to take measurements at different levels of the atmosphere. Conditions at all levels of the atmosphere are constantly interacting. For exa â¦ mple, many storm system develop from disturbances in the middle and upper layers of the troposphere. + 1 other found this useful.
NSSL researchers were pioneers in the science of launching instrumented weather balloons into thunderstorms. This capability allowed NSSL to collect weather data in the vicinity of tornadoes and drylines, and all the way up through a thunderstorm, gathering critically needed observations in the near-storm environment of thunderstorms.