Abstract: The ultrasonic anemometer is widely used in the field of wind speed measurement in the coal mine. To compensate for the error of wind speed caused by the ...

Stormy night hits the capital. As Parisians awoke to strong gusts of wind, the Eiffel Tower’s weather counters and the ...

On any given winter morning, several members of the Northwest Avalanche Center’s 11-member team commute to one of the region’s hardiest jobs: avalanche observation. From Mount Hood ...

Acoustic signals have been important markers during NASA's Mars missions. Measurements of sound can provide information both about Mars itself—such as turbulence in its atmosphere, changes in its ...

There are a handful of artifacts in the Smithsonian Institution that I call “signature Smithsonian objects.” One-of-a-kind objects, intimately associated with the Smithsonian, that visitors feel they ...

How fast is the wind blowing where you live? As we see on “Weather Hunters,” meteorologists use a tool called an anemometer to measure wind speed. Anemometers work because they have arms with cup-like ...

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THE U.S. Monthly Weather Review for February contains an important contribution by Prof. C. F. Marvin on anemometer tests. The paper gives the results of a series of experiments to determine the ...

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