Jacqui Bennett, chief meteorologist at KRON 4 in San Francisco, says this will revolutionize weather forecasting, not just for air travel, w/more data in the upper atmosphere:
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-06-19/airliners-become-weathermen-as-sensors-upend-forecasting#p1
I've read elsewhere that the federal government intends to slowly shut down or diminish the weather balloon program in favor of the airliner data.
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