• Atmospheric sounding or atmospheric profiling is a measurement of vertical distribution of physical properties of the atmospheric column such as pressure...
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  • Atmospheric lidar is a class of instruments that uses laser light to study atmospheric properties from the ground up to the top of the atmosphere. Such...
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    several bands of microwave radiation from the atmosphere to perform atmospheric sounding of temperature and moisture levels. Level-1 radiance data are calibrated...
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    Depth sounding, often simply called sounding, is measuring the depth of a body of water. Data taken from soundings are used in bathymetry to make maps...
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  • The infrared atmospheric sounding interferometer (IASI) is a Fourier transform spectrometer based on the Michelson interferometer, associated with an integrated...
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    "sounder" in AIRS's name refers to the fact that the instrument measures temperature and water vapor as a function of height (atmospheric sounding)....
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    carried on board MetOp is the Infrared atmospheric sounding interferometer (IASI), the most accurate infrared sounding interferometer currently in orbit....
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  • A tethersonde is a type of radiosonde used in atmospheric science for atmospheric sounding. Tethersondes are attached to fixed or tethered balloons via...
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    instrument onboard MetOp satellites Spire LEMUR cubesats Yunyao 1 Atmospheric limb sounding Bistatic radar Ding, Tong; Awange, Joseph L.; Scherllin-Pirscher...
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    A radio acoustic sounding system (RASS) is a system for measuring the atmospheric lapse rate using backscattering of radio waves from an acoustic wave...
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  • The microwave sounding unit (MSU) was the predecessor to the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU). The MSU was first launched aboard the TIROS-N satellite...
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    for accurate weather forecasts with environmental sustainability. Atmospheric sounding Ceiling balloon High-altitude balloon SCR-658 radar Skyhook balloon...
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    Radiosonde (category Atmospheric sounding)
    Example of frequency allocation 6AK5 Atmospheric model Atmospheric thermodynamics CTD (instrument) Global horizontal sounding technique Rocketsonde Totex - a...
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    Vanguard 1 (category Atmospheric sounding satellites)
    2,000 years, but it was discovered that solar radiation pressure and atmospheric drag during high levels of solar activity produced significant perturbations...
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    suborbital flight profile, sounding rockets are often much simpler than counterparts built for orbital flight. Certain sounding rockets have an apogee between...
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  • atmosphere and surface. It is the successor to the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) on NOAA weather satellites. ATMS units have been flown on the...
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    Convective available potential energy (category Atmospheric thermodynamics)
    parcel to sink. Nonzero CAPE is an indicator of atmospheric instability in any given atmospheric sounding, a necessary condition for the development of...
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  • theorem. It is used very commonly in the geosciences, particularly for atmospheric sounding. A matrix inverse problem looks like this: A x → = y → {\displaystyle...
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  • Sound pressure or acoustic pressure is the local pressure deviation from the ambient (average or equilibrium) atmospheric pressure, caused by a sound...
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    MOPITT (category Atmospheric sounding satellite sensors)
    functionality and transmit information and data past 2026. MOPITT is a nadir-sounding (vertically downward pointing) instrument that measures upwelling infrared...
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  • failed on February 5, 2003. It worked with the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder and AMSU-A to form the AIRS Sounding Suite. HSB was manufactured by Matra Marconi...
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    Within the atmospheric sciences, atmospheric physics is the application of physics to the study of the atmosphere. Atmospheric physicists attempt to model...
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    Dropsonde (category Atmospheric sounding)
    expendable weather reconnaissance device created by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), designed to be dropped from an aircraft at altitude...
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    Léon Teisserenc de Bort (category Atmospheric sounding)
    Léon Philippe Teisserenc de Bort (5 November 1855 in Paris, France – 2 January 1913 in Cannes, France) was a French meteorologist and a pioneer in the...
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    NOAA Hurricane Hunters (category Atmospheric sounding)
    for hurricane reconnaissance by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). They fly through hurricanes to help forecasters...
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  • Trip hop (redirect from The Bristol sound)
    with slow tempos and an atmospheric sound. The style emerged as a more experimental variant of breakbeat from the Bristol sound scene of the late 1980s...
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    In atmospheric sounding and noise pollution, ambient noise level (sometimes called background noise level, reference sound level, or room noise level)...
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    visible channels, additional IR channels, water vapor channels and atmospheric sounding retrievals. However, most precipitation data sets in current use...
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    The FAAM Airborne Laboratory is an atmospheric science research facility. It is based on the Cranfield University campus alongside Cranfield Airport in...
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    Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (category Atmospheric sounding satellite sensors)
    1170B. doi:10.1175/1520-0477(1984)065<1170:TERBE>2.0.CO;2. "Surface and Atmospheric Remote Sensing: Technologies, Data Analysis and Interpretation., International"...
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