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WEATHER INSTRUMENTS

Reviewed 12th July 2019


Stevenson’s screen
Hygrometer
Whirling Psychrometer
Relative Humidity Table
Dew Point Table
Anemometer
Anemometer
Anemometer

 A hemispherical cup anemometer of the type


invented in 1846 by John Thomas Romney Robinson
 An anemometer is a device used for measuring
the speed of wind, and is also a common
weather station instrument. The term is derived
from the Greek word anemos, which means wind,
and is used to describe any wind speed
measurement instrument used in meteorology. The
first known description of an anemometer was given
by Leon Battista Alberti in 1450.
Marine Anemometer
Sea Water temperature bucket
Sea Water temperature bucket
 So, how were buckets used to measure sea surface
temperatures? Sailors would lower these buckets over the
sides of their ships and drag them through the water until
the buckets were full. Next, the sailors would hoist the
buckets back up to the ship deck, where they inserted a
mercury thermometer into the water and allowed it to sit
for generally about three minutes. They then recorded
these temperatures in the ship’s logbook.
 Sea surface temperatures can affect many things from the
formation of tropical cyclones to the amount of
precipitation and where it falls. Perhaps most
importantly, these temperatures affect the behavior of the
Earth’s atmosphere above them,
Sea Water temperature bucket

 Sea surface temperatures can affect many


things from the formation of tropical cyclones
to the amount of precipitation and where it
falls. Perhaps most importantly, these
temperatures affect the behaviour of the Earth’s
atmosphere above them,

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