The primary purpose of a radiosonde is:

A) to report data about surface conditions at an automated weather station.
B) to compile data from thousands of automated weather stations into one file.
C) to calculate numerical predictions of weather.
D) to acquire data about conditions in the upper atmosphere.


D

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