- Industry: Weather
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The American Meteorological Society promotes the development and dissemination of information and education on the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic sciences and the advancement of their professional applications. Founded in 1919, AMS has a membership of more than 14,000 professionals, ...
An instrument with calibration determined by comparison with an absolute instrument.
Industry:Weather
An international code used to report the direction of sferics azimuth for the previous 24 hours in terms of bearings from the observing station.
Industry:Weather
An international code word used to indicate a route forecast (along an air route). See'' also'' ROFOT, ROMET.
Industry:Weather
An international code word denoting a route forecast, units in the metric system. See'' also'' ROFOR, ROFOT.
Industry:Weather
An instrument that chronicles the ratio of the radiation reflected by a surface to the radiation incident upon it.
Industry:Weather
An instrument that determines the blackbody temperature of a substance by measuring its thermal radiation. The substance need not be thermally black over the whole spectrum, since it is possible to limit the measurement to those frequencies where it is black.
Industry:Weather
An instrument that measures radiated electromagnetic power. Radiometers operating at infrared and microwave frequencies are used in passive atmospheric remote sensing.
Industry:Weather
An instrument that measures the spectral distribution of the intensity of direct solar radiation. See pyrheliometer, spectrophotometer.
Industry:Weather
An instrument that shows the rate at which an aircraft is gaining or losing altitude. It is in actuality a rate-of-pressure-change indicator, a sensitive aircraft aneroid barometer with a slow leak to the aneroid capsule calibrated in terms of altitude change.
Industry:Weather
