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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Kehdingen was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine. She was converted to a weather ship and entered service as WBS 6 Kehdingen in 1942. On 7 September, Kehdingen...

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...

weapon station Ocean Weather Ship (or Station), a past programme involving meteorological ships located in the ocean for use in weather forecasting This disambiguation...

MS Polarfront was a Norwegian weather ship located in the North Atlantic Ocean. It was the last remaining weather ship in the world, maintained by the...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

built navigation and communication facilities, and provided rescue and weather ship services in the area from 1941 through 1945. Earth's atmospheric circulation...

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...

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

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

and a weather ship during World War II. She was sold to Norway in 1956 and renamed Meløytrål, serving until 1979 when she was scrapped. The ship was 43...

The list of Kriegsmarine ships includes all ships commissioned into the Kriegsmarine, the navy of Nazi Germany, during its existence from 1935 to the conclusion...

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...

mountains, islands, weather phenomena, or animals. The word maru (丸, meaning "circle") is often attached to Japanese ship names. The first ship known to follow...

during the war as a convoy escort. Following the war, the ship was converted into a weather ship and remained as such until being withdrawn from service...

of weather conditions at one single location and are usually at a weather station, a ship or a weather buoy. The measurements taken at a weather station...

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