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Record 1 2011-08-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weather Stations and Meteorological Instruments and Equipment
  • Modelling (Mathematics)
DEF

Grid-work of bars of a grid nephoscope.

CONT

grid nephoscope. It is mounted horizontally on the end of a vertical column and made free to rotate about the vertical axis. The observer must adjust the angular position of the grid until some feature of the cloud in the field of view appears to move along the major axis of the grid.

CONT

grid nephoscope: Nephoscope in which cloud movement is observed directly, in relation ... to a grid ...

OBS

grid nephoscope: A device for determining the direction of cloud motion.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stations, instruments et équipements météorologiques
  • Modélisation (Mathématique)
CONT

néphoscope à grille. Néphoscope dans lequel le mouvement des nuages est observé directement, par rapport à une grille.

Spanish

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