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The record of a barograph.

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An instrument for measuring differences of electric potential.

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A instrument designed to study small fluctuations of some quantity. The microbarograph is an example of a recording pressure variometer.

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A measure of the degree to which the weather or climate of a region is favorable to the process of evaporation. Usually considered to be the rate of evaporation. under existing atmospheric conditions, from a surface of water which is chemically pure and h ...

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The pressure unit of the meter-ton-second system of physical units. equal to 10 millibars or 101 dynes per cm2.

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Technically, the temperature registered by the dry-bulb thermometer of a psychrometer. However, it is identical with the temperature of the air and may also be used in that sense.

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A system of estimating and reporting wind speed, originally based on the effect of various wind speeds on the amount of canvas that a full-rigged nineteenth century frigate could carry.

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An instrument which measures the effective terrestrial radiation. See Angstrom pyrgeometer.

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In general, pertaining to or affording an overall view. In meteorology, this term has become somewhat specialized in referring to the use of meteorological data obtained simultaneously over a wide area for the purpose of obtaining a comprehensive and near ...

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Any one of a family of circular arcs consisting of concentric colored bands, arranged from red on the inside to blue on the outside, which may be seen on a "sheet" of water drops (rain, fog, spray). The most common of the many possible is the primary rain ...

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A unit that represents one degree of deviation from a reference point in the mean daily outdoor temperature (usually 65

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An apparatus, used in studying soil temperatures, for measuring the total supply of heat during a given period.

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A unit of pressure equal to 10' dyne per cm-' (101 barye), 1000 millibars. 29.53 inches of mercury.

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See calorie.

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An instrument used for the determination of the electrical conductivity of the atmosphere.

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film hygrometer element-An electrical hygrometer element constructed of a plastic strip coated with a film of carbon black dispersed in a hygroscopic binder. Variations in atmospheric moisture content vary the volume of the binder and thus change the resi ...

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Radiation with wavelengths greater than 4 microns. (In meteorology, same as infrared radiation.)

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A graduated scale placed in a position so that the stage of a stream may be read directly from it. Staff gauges may be placed on bridge piers or pilings, etc., or placed on specially constructed supports.

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The effect upon the measurement of rainfall caused by the presence of the rain gauge.

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The lowest value of a measured quality at which a sensor meets its accuracy specification.

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