A weather ship, or ocean station vessel, was a ship stationed in the ocean for surface and upper air meteorological observations for use in weather forecasting...

automated measurements are taken at least once an hour. Weather conditions out at sea are taken by ships and buoys, which measure slightly different meteorological...

weather ship was Polarfront, known as weather station M ("Mike"), which was put out of operation on 1 January 2010. Weather observations from ships continue...

Lauenburg was a German weather ship used in the early years of the Second World War to provide weather reports for German shipping, particularly German...

1953 until 1957 when she was converted to a weather ship at Blyth in Northumberland and renamed to Weather Advisor in a ceremony on 22 September 1960 at...

used for recording and give output readings of various aspects of the weather. Weather stations typically have these following instruments: Thermometer for...

launchers from land vehicles as well as ships and aircraft (usually dropsondes in this case). In recent years, weather balloons have also been used for scattering...

ship was constructed during World War II and saw service during the war as a convoy escort. Following the war, the ship was converted into a weather ship...

Kriegsmarine during the Second World War. She served as a supply ship, the weather ship WBS 7 Sachsenwald and the vorpostenboot V 414 Sachsenwald. She was...

either chains, nylon, or buoyant polypropylene. With the decline of the weather ship, they have taken a more primary role in measuring conditions over the...

the collection of weather data at sea as a service to mariners. This was the forerunner of the modern Meteorological Office. All ship captains were tasked...

included ships at sea and the weather stations at Valentia Observatory and Blacksod Point, in neutral Ireland; German use of weather ships also exposed...

Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar (WSR) and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its...

deployed for use as weather ships have fallen out of favor due to their high operating cost. Unmanned weather buoys replaced weather ships when they became...

observations from ships, weather buoys, weather satellites, and numerical weather prediction have been used to diagnose and help forecast weather over the Earth's...

British Air Ministry on 26 September 1960 for use as a weather ship, and was commissioned as Weather Surveyor on 21 December 1961. She was sold on 15 July...

Airport weather stations are automated sensor suites which are designed to serve aviation and meteorological operations, weather forecasting and climatology...

Hussar V for Marjorie Merriweather Post in 1931, she later served as a weather ship for the United States Coast Guard and United States Navy during World...

Massachusetts, on 9 November 1944. Conversion to a weather ship followed (the after 3-inch gun was removed and a weather balloon hangar was added); and on 2 March...

further five as convoy rescue ships for its Merchant Navy. Four became weather ships after the war. The Castle resembled later Flowers with an extended forecastle...

sailed to New York for overhaul during which she was converted to a weather ship. Her conversion was interrupted by a convoy escort voyage to Oran, Algeria...

The Remote Automatic Weather Stations (RAWS) system is a network of automated weather stations run by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and Bureau of Land...

frigate Sachsen (F219), the lead ship of that class German weather ship WBS 1 Sachsen, formerly FV Sachsen, a trawler converted to a weather ship during World War II...

Coburg Dock, Port of Liverpool, England German weather ship WBS 2 Coburg, a Kriegsmarine weather ship Operation Coburg, a 1968 Australian and New Zealand...

An automatic weather station (AWS) is an automated version of the traditional weather station, either to save human labor or to enable measurements from...

Weather modification is the act of intentionally manipulating or altering the weather. The most common form of weather modification is cloud seeding, which...

weather ship. Ten days later, on 22 January 1944, her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register. Based at Boston, Asterion served as a weather patrol...

ships can "ride out" storms. Also, as late as the 20th century, weather prediction was "a haphazard process, very imprecise and unreliable." A ship might...

concept is from the Age of Sail and is now antique. A ship at sea is said to possess the weather gage if it is in any position upwind of the other vessel...

Freese was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine. She was converted to a weather ship and was commissioned on 1 March as WBS 4 Hinrich Freese. Her complement...