Warren-Knight Instrument Company
A division of Warren Industries, Inc
Warren-Knight Instrument Company
2045 Bennett Road - Philadelphia, PA 19116
Phone: 215.464.9300 - Fax: 215.464.9303

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PIBAL System

Upper Air Wind Speed and Direction PIBAL System
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Specifications

Why Wind Speed and Direction?
- Meteorological event recording
- Mobile soundings to support nuclear emergency response
- Forest fire response
- Aviation special events
- Automated upper air wind speed and direction equipment quality control checks

PIBAL Software Features lnclude*
- Theodolite azimuth and elevation display
- Wind speed and direction display
- Wind direction compass bearing display
- Log file capability for post-processing
- Selectable rise rate units
- Balloon altitude display in AGL or MSL
- User defined balloon release point elevation
- GPS coordinate entry field for better logging and positioning
- Run time-elapsed clock
- Event marker to mark erroneous data
- User assigned sampling interval
- Selectable manual data entry - Audible tones

Hardware Features lnclude*
- 400MHz Intel XScale processor
- 64MB RAM, 32MB ROM
- Bluetooth
- Pocket PC 2003
- 3.8” TFT active-matrix display
- Latest version of Warren-Knights PIBAL software Model Number WK-91-6510
- Handheld Computer (PDA)
- 8 ft. cable (part number 15-906) to connect compatible Warren-Knight theodolite to handheld computer