Sentences with phrase «platinum resistance thermometers»

In its automatic weather stations the Bureau achieves this by using platinum resistance thermometers.

The guide clearly states that readings from platinum resistance thermometers are not comparable with instant one - second readings from mercury in glass thermometers.

From the 1990s and until last year the BoM conducted side by side tests of liquid in glass and platinum resistance thermometers at various sites.

Satellite microwave radiometers, however, are equipped with laboratory - calibrated platinum resistance thermometers, which have demonstrated stability to thousandths of a degree over many years, and which are used to continuously calibrate the satellite instruments once every 8 seconds.

The device they use is not a thermistor it works sort of similar to that by variation of resistance with temperature but is called a platinum resistance thermometer.

The average temperature at a site would be determined as the arithmetic average of hourly, automated data recording using a platinum resistance thermometer or similar.