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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, ...
A flat plastic strip bounded by electrodes on two sides and coated with a hygroscopic chemical compound such as lithium chloride. The electrical resistance of this coating is a function of the amount of moisture absorbed from the atmosphere and the temperature of the strip. Humidity strips have been used in radiosondes, but are replaced today by thin-film capacitors or carbon-film hygrometer elements. See dew cell.
Industry:Weather
A flat plastic strip bounded by electrodes on two sides and coated with a hygroscopic chemical compound such as lithium chloride. The electrical resistance of this coating is a function of the amount of moisture absorbed from the atmosphere and the temperature of the strip. Humidity strips have been used in radiosondes, but are replaced today by thin-film capacitors or carbon-film hygrometer elements. See dew cell.
Industry:Weather
Small, solid particles in the supposedly empty space between stars. Dark blotches in the Milky Way are not due to the absence of stars but rather to attenuation of starlight by interstellar dust. Compare interplanetary dust.
Industry:Weather
Small, solid particles in the supposedly empty space between stars. Dark blotches in the Milky Way are not due to the absence of stars but rather to attenuation of starlight by interstellar dust. Compare interplanetary dust.
Industry:Weather
In radar, the time between successive; the reciprocal of the pulse repetition frequency.
Industry:Weather
A supplementary cloud feature peculiar to cumulonimbus capillatus; the spreading of the upper portion of cumulonimbus when this part takes the form of an anvil with a fibrous or smooth aspect. See cloud classification.
Industry:Weather
A line of equal change in height of a constant-pressure surface over a specified previous interval of time; the lines drawn on a height-change chart.
Industry:Weather
The international civil authority that sets the standards and practices for global air traffic operations.
Industry:Weather
A series of multipurpose geostationary satellites designed to support communications, television broadcasting, and meteorological observations. INSAT-1 (launched August 1983) was positioned at 74°E longitude, and was the first three- axis stabilized geostationary satellite. Not all satellites in the INSAT series have carried meteorological imagers.
Industry:Weather
A system of transponders carried by an aircraft that makes it possible to locate and identify the aircraft by radar. Although the system was originally developed for military uses, it has also been used in nonmilitary applications for tracking aircraft on radar displays. When a radar signal is detected by the transponder on the aircraft, the transponder sends back a coded message that is detected by the radar. The radar then plots on its display (usually a PPI) an indication of both the location and the identity (coded) of the aircraft.
Industry:Weather
