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    for Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System) is a digital datalink system for transmission of short messages between aircraft and ground...
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    and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART) is a component of an enhanced tsunami warning system. By logging changes in seafloor temperature and pressure, and transmitting...
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  • Communications Addressing and Reporting System SIGMET AIRMET Aeronautical Information Manual Marsh, Alton K. (2014-07-28). "Historic pilot report made on way...
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  • aircraft communication addressing and reporting system, air navigation, aircraft flight control system, aircraft collision avoidance systems, flight recorder...
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  • number of possible allowable codes. Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System Airline teletype system Communications satellite "Current SELCAL...
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  • List of weather instruments (category Meteorological instrumentation and equipment)
    Stations (RAWS) Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) NEXRAD radar Global Sea Level Observing System SST buoys Hurricane Hunters Dropsonde SNOTEL...
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    in METAR format, and typical reporting frequencies are once every 20 minutes. This option is only available for AWOS III or IV systems (see below). The...
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    Dropsonde (category Meteorological instrumentation and equipment)
    system designed to be operated by one person and is launched through a chute installed in the measuring aircraft. The device's descent is slowed and stabilized...
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    Weather balloon (category Meteorological instrumentation and equipment)
    programs often use mobile launchers from land vehicles as well as ships and aircraft (usually dropsondes in this case). In recent years, weather balloons have...
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  • worldwide by using commercial aircraft. Data is collected by the aircraft navigation systems and the onboard standard temperature and static pressure probes...
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    and intercom systems are commonly used as part of an emergency communication system. The term sound reinforcement system generally means a PA system used...
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    (150 m) and 10,000 feet (3,000 m). The 53rd WRS Hurricane Hunters operate ten WC-130J aircraft for weather reconnaissance. The WP-3D Orion aircraft flown...
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    Automatic weather station (category Meteorological instrumentation and equipment)
    the purpose of the system. The system may report in near real time via the Argos System, LoRa and the Global Telecommunications System, or save the data...
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  • IWXXM (category Meteorological data and networks)
    ICAO Meteorological Information Exchange Model (IWXXM) is a format for reporting weather information in XML/GML. IWXXM includes XML/GML-based representations...
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    Meteorology (category Applied and interdisciplinary physics)
    advanced tools like weather satellites, balloons, reconnaissance aircraft, buoys and radars. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ensures international...
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    United Airlines Flight 175 (category Aircraft hijackings in the United States)
    the aircraft's cockpit using the Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) message system. He wrote, "I heard of a reported incident...
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    electrical grid, but rather have their own solar panels, and a battery to store power for overnight reporting. Some instead run on a generator. In both cases,...
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    METAR is a format for reporting weather information. A METAR weather report is predominantly used by aircraft pilots, and by meteorologists, who use aggregated...
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    United Airlines Flight 93 (category Aircraft hijackings in the United States)
    traffic officials began issuing warnings through the Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS). Ed Ballinger, the United flight dispatcher...
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    Hurricane hunters (category United States special-purpose aircraft)
    dropsonde system, which collects extra meteorological data on tropical cyclones to enhance the monitoring of typhoons. Among the types of aircraft that have...
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    Masayuki Kawashima, Yasushi Fujiyoshi and Masaaki Wakatsuchi (October 2005). "Aircraft Observations of Air-mass Modification Over the Sea of Okhotsk during Sea-ice...
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    American Airlines Flight 11 (category Aircraft hijackings in the United States)
    someone in the cockpit at 08:21. At 08:23 and 08:25, Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) tried to contact the flight. The first...
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    FLUXNET (category Applied and interdisciplinary physics)
    Lessons Learned from a Global Network of Carbon Dioxide Flux Measurement Systems". Australian Journal of Botany. 56: 1–26. doi:10.1071/bt07151. Pastorello...
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    via voice radio communication. Recent wind shear alerts may also feature in radio broadcasts by the automated terminal information system (ATIS). LLWAS...
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    (AICS). Aircraft application of radar systems include weather radar, collision avoidance, target tracking, ground proximity, and other systems. For commercial...
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    Fengler, Martin; Jensen, Anders A.; Steiner, Matthias (November 1, 2021). "The Status and Future of Small Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) in Operational Meteorology"...
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    Citizen Weather Observer Program (category Meteorological data and networks)
    radio Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) stations. As of October 2017[update], more than 13,000 stations worldwide report regularly to the network...
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  • ATC system uses analog radio systems for aircraft Communication, navigation and surveillance (CNS). Air traffic control's ability to monitor aircraft was...
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  • TAMDAR (category Meteorological data and networks)
    Meteorological Data Reporting) is a weather monitoring system that consists of an in situ atmospheric sensor mounted on commercial aircraft for data gathering...
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    measured by the distance and direction a float drifts while parked at that depth, which is determined by GPS or Argos system positions at the surface...
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