Sentences with phrase «anemometer measures»
A handheld anemometer measures sustained winds over 30 miles per hour (49 kilometers / hour).
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Anemometers measure wind speed.
Not exact matches
Although there aren't yet anemometers on the Martian surface to measure wind speed, the camera captured huge dust devils — much like our tornadoes — and provided evidence that the sand dunes on Mars are still being shaped by winds.
In winter the observers didn't use the anemometer, an instrument for measuring wind speed, for fear it would be damaged by the supercooled water droplets that froze to everything, leaving the observatory caked in windblown ice.
Flux towers are equipped with inlets for «sniffing the air» above the forest, in addition to other instruments such as sonic anemometers for measuring wind.
Meanwhile, at nearby Naples Municipal Airport, a device used to measure air speeds — an anemometer — clocked a wind gust of 229 kilometers (142 miles) per hour.
Rasmus, How was peak - windspeed measured / assessed with the early manual «run of wind» type cup anemometers?
If you have a device for measuring wind speed (called an anemometer), you can use the Beaufort Scale to convert speed to force.
Presently, Gartner Lee has applied for funds from the federal government to build an anemometer to measure wind.
actually measured the wind speed with an anemometer wouldn't that count more than an estimate.