Sentences with phrase «wind measuring devices»

Based on the excerpted answer from Parker below, I would assume that one could chose areas that could be a prior selected as UHI and non-UHI sites and have temperature and wind measuring devices placed there to establish a direct relationship of UHI degree effects versus the effects of wind velocity (and direction) on Tmin.

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The other team employed a new 3D sensor and computer algorithms on a tablet computer and machine learning — a type of artificial intelligence — for the first time allowing surgeons to precisely measure the area, depth, and tissue type of chronic wounds with a mobile device.

This ingenious device uses radar to measure the choppiness of the ocean surface, and thereby to infer the speed and direction of the ocean winds (a technique known as scatterometry).

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.

Recently, truck - borne Doppler radar observations of tornadoes (readers who watch tornado TV shows would be familiar with such devices) have identified a number of cases in which the radar - measured winds are considerably faster than the official NWS rating implies.

If you have a device for measuring wind speed (called an anemometer), you can use the Beaufort Scale to convert speed to force.

If you are using a hand - held device to measure either wind direction or wind speed, make sure you are not standing between the device and the direction from which the wind is blowing.

The buoys carry a bevy of advanced instruments, including devices called lidar, which is short for light detection and ranging, to measure wind speed and direction at multiple heights above the ocean.

A FLiDAR device measures wind speeds at the Neart na Gaoithe site off the coast of Fife Credit: Mainstream Renewable Power