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    A ceilometer is a device that uses a laser or other light source to determine the height of a cloud ceiling or cloud base. Ceilometers can also be used...
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    configure a trigger to start the workflow on some event. OpenStack Telemetry (Ceilometer) provides a Single Point Of Contact for billing systems, providing all...
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    Automated airport weather stations use an upward-pointing laser beam ceilometer to detect the amount and height of clouds. The laser is pointed upward...
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  • measuring drop size distribution Transmissometer for measuring visibility Ceilometer for measuring cloud ceiling Argo Global Atmosphere Watch Automatic weather...
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    to the millibar). The height of the cloud base can be measured using a ceilometer. This device reflects a beam of light off the cloud base and then calculates...
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    sensors (carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, dust, and smoke), ceilometer (cloud ceiling), falling precipitation sensor, flood sensor, lightning...
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    conjunction with an alidade, to measure the height of the base of clouds Ceilometer – a device that uses a laser or other light source to measure the height...
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    Military section above for further examples. A lidar-based device, the Ceilometer, is used at airports worldwide to measure the height of clouds on runway...
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    measuring drop size distribution Transmissometer for measuring visibility Ceilometer for measuring cloud ceiling More sophisticated stations may also measure...
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    of 180 degrees. A ceilometer is a device that uses a laser or other light source to determine the height of a cloud base. Ceilometers can also be used...
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    Barometer for measuring atmospheric pressure Some stations can also have Ceilometer for measuring cloud height Present weather sensor and/or visibility sensor...
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    base of the cloud or the size of it. Cloud height is measured with a ceilometer, which takes laser or other light measurements of the cloud base and cloud...
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  • light Voltage detector Actinometer Air pollution sensor Bedwetting alarm Ceilometer Dew warning Electrochemical gas sensor Fish counter Frequency domain sensor...
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  • sometimes cause a problem for automated airport weather stations. The ceilometer and visibility sensor do not always correctly interpret the falling diamond...
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    (similar to a ceilometer), with the height of the illuminated spot then calculated by the observer using a clinometer or alidade. ceilometer An instrument...
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    calorimeter heat of chemical reactions cathetometer vertical distances ceilometer height of a cloud base chronometer or clock time clap-o-meter volume of...
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  • satellite-mounted, such as radiometers, optical sensors, radar, lidar and ceilometer as well as sodar since these cannot measure the quantity of interest,...
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  • ("to determine the height of the base of clouds above ground level") ceilometer ("to determine the height of a cloud base") celestial coordinate system...
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  • Bistatic radars X-band (3 centimeter wavelength) vertical pointing radar Ceilometer "Three McGill Weather Observatories" (PDF). J.S. Marshall McGill University...
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    Retrievals Using Combined Ground-Based Infrared Cloud Measuring Instrument and Ceilometer Observations". Remote Sensing. 10 (2033): 2033. Bibcode:2018RemS...10...
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    temperature sensors (port, starboard and foremast) Automated total sky imager Ceilometer cloud height sensor Ice and wave radar Long wave infrared radiation sensors...
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    many islands giving a second chance to thousands of seabird fledglings. Ceilometers (searchlights) can be particularly deadly traps for birds, because they...
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    disappears. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ceiling projector. Ceilometer Trigonometric function Triangle Department of Transport (Canada) - Meteorological...
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  • optical damage Cauterization Cavity ring-down laser absorption spectroscopy Ceilometer Chaos in optical systems Chemical laser Chemical oxygen iodine laser Chirped...
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  • instruments to record their findings. Some of these instruments include a ceilometer and doppler lidar, both used to detect clouds and aerosols, a cloud radar...
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    Recorder (HWSR) was installed at the Chennai centre. In 2003–2004, a laser ceilometer was installed at Chennai airport for reporting data on height of base...
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    telescope dome now houses a remotely operable mount with a micropulse LIDAR/ceilometer, ultra-sensitive Sun polarimeter and a cirrus-detecting infrared pyrometer...
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    supersite successfully operated a state of art eddy co-variance flux tower, ceilometer, microwave radiometer and launched radiosondes which provided a wealth...
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  • modular system with two components: a meteorological (MET) sensor and a ceilometer (cloud ceiling height) with limited MET. The basic MET system is surface-based...
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    in the city. This equipment includes a radar wind profiler and a laser ceilometer. Burnside Hall was completed in 1970 in Brutalist style by the architecture...
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