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    A transmissometer or transmissiometer is an instrument for measuring the extinction coefficient of the atmosphere and sea water, and for the determination...
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    along the runway or transmissometers which are installed at one side of a runway close to its edge. Normally three transmissometers are provided, one at...
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    A time-domain reflectometer (TDR) is an electronic instrument used to determine the characteristics of electrical lines by observing reflected pulses....
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  • falling precipitation Disdrometer for measuring drop size distribution Transmissometer for measuring visibility Ceilometer for measuring cloud ceiling Argo...
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    weather stations use one of two sensor types: forward scatter sensors transmissometers The forward scatter sensor uses a beam of infrared light which is sent...
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    falling precipitation Disdrometer for measuring drop size distribution Transmissometer for measuring visibility Ceilometer for measuring cloud ceiling More...
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    radiation, fallout, radon), seismometer (earthquakes and tremors), transmissometer (visibility), and a GPS clock for data logging. Upper air data are...
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    dissipation rate of turbulent kinetic energy and the momentum flux. Transmissometer Nephelometer "Heat Fluxes & the Energy Balance". Archived from the...
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    Fogging (photography) Fog lamp Head-up display Runway visual range Transmissometer Fog season Smoke Smog Whiteout (weather) Vog Gultepe, Ismail, ed. (2...
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    the target and the observer, to calculate the loss, and is called a transmissometer. By measuring the amount of light which is transmitted from a light...
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    one specific direction can be measured with an instrument called a transmissometer. Apparent optical properties (AOPs) depend on what is in the water...
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    sensors (such as a fluorometer to measure chlorophyll fluorescence and a transmissometer to measure turbidity). A CTD-rosette comes up out of the water just...
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    deployments underwater. Beam attenuation is measured with a device called a transmissometer that has a light source at one end and a detector at the other end...
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    ultraviolet, and infrared parts of the spectrum. Turbidimeters and Transmissometers have their own light sources and can measure transparency with scientific...
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  • methods include Optical Remote Sensing which uses an open path laser transmissometer used with time-resolved dust monitors and other wind monitors. Various...
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    obtain the direction and severity of lightning. Scatterometers and transmissometers, where the extinction of a visual signal through air from a source...
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  • carry several oceanographic sensors in the same time such as, CTD, transmissometer, fluorometer and flowmeter. These sensors enable the system to measure...
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    airport's primary instrument runway - would have required only that the transmissometers at the touchdown, midfield, and rollout zones of that runway were indicating...
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  • microscopy DNA sequencing Transmission line measurement Transmission medium Transmissometer Transmittance Transmitter power output Transmon Transonic Transonic...
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