ATOC 184 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lightning Detection, Dew Point, Wind Profiler
14 Mar 2016
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Meteorological measurements how you gather data to make weather predictions. Surface measurements taken at airports (wind ) Lightning detection when and where lightning will hit. Measurements need to be made simultaneously in order to assess the atmosphere at one time. Time zones : coordinated universal time / greenwich mean time. The types of observations seen in the previous map are made mostly by automated surface observations made at least each hour. ** if temp was 54 and dew point was also 54 the relative humidity is 100% Measure wave heights, air and ocean temperature. Attach instruments to balloons and record measurements as it goes up. The top line is always gonna be the line on the right because the dew point can never be higher than temp. It is possible to be equal but never above. A vice that transmits pulses of microwave energy. Radar contains a transmitter, antenna and a receiver.
