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  2. List of weather instruments - Wikipedia

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    Wind vane (also called a weather vane or a weathercock) for showing the wind direction; Present Weather/Precipitation Identification Sensor for identifying falling precipitation; Disdrometer for measuring drop size distribution; Transmissometer for measuring visibility; Ceilometer for measuring cloud ceiling

  3. Weather station - Wikipedia

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    A weather instrument is any device that measures weather related conditions. Since there are a variety of different weather conditions, there are a variety of different weather instruments. Typical weather stations have the following instruments and sensors: Thermometer for measuring air and sea surface temperature

  4. Meteorological instrumentation - Wikipedia

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    A weather station is a facility with instruments and equipment to make observations of atmospheric conditions in order to provide information to make weather forecasts and to study the weather and climate. The measurements taken include temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, wind speed, wind direction, and precipitation amounts.

  5. Automatic weather station - Wikipedia

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    An automatic weather station (AWS) is an automated version of the traditional weather station, either to save human labor or to enable measurements from remote areas. [1] An AWS will typically consist of a weather-proof enclosure containing the data logger , rechargeable battery , telemetry (optional) and the meteorological sensors with an ...

  6. Weather satellite - Wikipedia

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    These are also available on the city forecast pages of www.noaa.gov (example Dallas, TX). [13] Several geostationary meteorological spacecraft are in operation. The United States' GOES series has three in operation: GOES-15, GOES-16 and GOES-17. GOES-16 and-17 remain stationary over the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, respectively. [14]

  7. Doppler on Wheels - Wikipedia

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    DOWs, by virtue of providing especially fine-scale targeted observations, have been central to various scientific discoveries, "firsts", and pioneering observations, e.g. the first concrete documentation of specific impacts of weather modification cloud seeding, the first mapping of multiple-vortices in tornadoes, the quantification of tornado ...

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  9. Dropsonde - Wikipedia

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    Dropsonde delivery system on a NOAA P-3 Hurricane Hunter. A dropsonde is an expendable weather reconnaissance device created by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), designed to be dropped from an aircraft at altitude over water to measure (and therefore track) storm conditions as the device falls to the surface.