The total of all deviations of a transducer's output from a specified straight line in a constant environment.

In meteorology, a deflecting force acting on a body in motion and resulting from the earth's rotation. It deflects air currents to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere, thus having an effect on wind direction.

A clockwise change in wind direction. Veering winds with height are indicative of warm air advection (WAA).

The process by which events in the real world are translated into machine-readable signals.

An instrument of the aspiration condenser type which measures the concentration and mobility of small ions.

Same as constant-level balloon.

A numbering system using a base number of 2 and having only two digits: 0 and 1. The fundamental system of representing information with electrical pulses.

An instrument for photographing the corona and prominences of the sun at times other than at solar eclipse.

Infrared radiation emitted by or being propagated through the atmosphere.

The record obtained from a bolometer.

A unit of energy per unit area commonly employed in radiation theory. Equal to one gram-calorie per square centimeter.

A definite portion of a stream channel, commonly taken between two gauging stations, but may be taken between any two specified points.

Lacking a relationship to a time base or clock. In asynchronous communications, individual data characters are sent at an arbitrary rate.

An instrument for recording ocean waves. Most recorders are designed for recording wind waves, that is waves of periods up to about 25 seconds, but some are designed to record waves of longer periods such as tsunamis or tides.

A system of physical units based on the use of the centimeter, gram. and the second as elementary quantities of length. mass. and time.

Temperature of equilibrium between the liquid and vapor phases of a substance at a given pressure.

The envelope of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by virtue of the earth's gravitational attraction. The system whose chemical Properties. dynamic motions, and physical processes constitute the subject matter of meteorolog ...

Same as ceiling light.

Central Processing Unit. The part of a computer which controls and directs all functions.

An instrument for the measurement of both solar and terrestrial radiation.