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Weather Station Kurt (Wetter-Funkgerät Land-26) was an automatic weather station, erected by a German U-boat crew of the Kriegsmarine in northern Labrador, Dominion of Newfoundland, in October 1943. Installing the equipment for the station was the only known armed German military operation on land in North America during the Second World War .
The Mount Washington Observatory ( MWObs) is a private, non-profit scientific and educational institution organized under the laws of the state of New Hampshire. The weather observation station is located on the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire. The Observatory's mission is to advance understanding of the natural systems that create ...
Present weather sensor. The present weather sensor (PWS) is a component of an automatic weather station that detects the presence of hydrometeors and determines their type ( rain, snow, drizzle, etc.) and intensity. It works on a principle similar to a bistatic radar, noting the passage of droplets, or flakes, between a transmitter and a sensor.
Map of regions covered by the 122 Weather Forecast Offices. The National Weather Service operates 122 weather forecast offices. [1] [2] Each weather forecast office (WFO or NWSFO) has a geographic area of responsibility, also known as a county warning area, for issuing local public, marine, aviation, fire, and hydrology forecasts.
Ambient Weather is an Arizona based weather station and software manufacturer that specializes in customized solutions and products for the home and office, industry, schools, resorts, government and the media. The company's exceptional growth has put them on the Inc. Magazine 's Top 500/5000 list Honor Roll [1] of fastest growing private ...
An automatic weather station ( AWS) is an automated version of the traditional weather station, either to save human labor or to enable measurements from remote areas. [ 1] An AWS will typically consist of a weather-proof enclosure containing the data logger, rechargeable battery, telemetry (optional) and the meteorological sensors with an ...
Ambient video is a new art form made possible by the increasing availability of large-scale, high-definition video display units. [1] Introduced in the late 1990s, the first flat wide-screen televisions were expensive, costing as much as $15,000 in 1997. [2] As costs rapidly declined, by 2008 larger screens became affordable and available for ...
Schatzgräber (weather station) Schatzgräber or “Treasure Hunter” was the name of a military weather station Nazi Germany 's Kriegsmarine established in the north of Alexandra Land in the Arctic Franz Josef Land archipelago in 1943. [ 1] The construction of the secret complex codename “Treasure Hunter” began in 1942 at the command of ...