meteorological measurement

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• Measurement tower — The measurement tower of Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe A measurement tower is a free standing tower or a removed mast, which carries measuring instruments with meteorological instruments such as thermometers and wind velocity measurers. Measuring… …   Wikipedia

• Meteorological instrumentation — Galileo thermometer Meteorological instrumentation is the equipment used to sample the state of the atmosphere at a given time. Each science has its own unique sets of laboratory equipment. However, meteorology is a science which does not use… …   Wikipedia

• Instrument meteorological conditions — (IMC), sometimes referred to as Blind flying, is an aviation term that describes weather conditions that normally require pilots to fly primarily by reference to instruments, and therefore under Instrument Flight Rules (IFR), rather than by… …   Wikipedia

• Temperature measurement — using modern scientific thermometers and temperature scales goes back at least as far as the early 18th century, when Gabriel Fahrenheit adapted a thermometer (switching to mercury) and a scale both developed by Ole Christensen Røemer. Fahrenheit …   Wikipedia

• Miniature Inertial Measurement Unit (MIMU) — is an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) developed and built by Honeywell International to control and stabilize spacecraft during mission operations. MIMUs can also be configured to perform as an Inertial Reference Unit (IRU). MIMUs have been flown …   Wikipedia

• Miniature inertial measurement unit (MIMU) — MIMU exploded view (From Marlim.com) Miniature inertial measurement unit (MIMU) is an inertial measurement unit (IMU) developed and built by Honeywell International[ …   Wikipedia

• temperature–humidity index — ▪ meteorological measurement       combination of temperature and humidity that is a measure of the degree of discomfort experienced by an individual in warm weather; it was originally called the discomfort index. The index is essentially an… …   Universalium

• Saffir-Simpson category —    a ranking of the strength of a hurricane, introduced by two American meteorologists and used by the U.S. National Weather Service to rank storms in the Atlantic and northeastern Pacific Oceans. A complete description, from the U.S. Atlantic… …   Dictionary of units of measurement

• Meteorology — For other uses of the root word meteor , see Meteor (disambiguation). For the work by Aristotle, see Meteorology (Aristotle). Not to be confused with Metrology. Part of the Nature series on Weather   …   Wikipedia

• weather forecasting — Prediction of the weather through application of the principles of physics and meteorology. Weather forecasting predicts atmospheric phenomena and changes on the Earth s surface caused by atmospheric conditions (snow and ice cover, storm tides,… …   Universalium

• Solar eclipse — A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth so that the Sun is wholly or partially obscured. This can only happen during a new moon, when the Sun and Moon are in conjunction as seen from the Earth. At least two and… …   Wikipedia