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...
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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...
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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...
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HMS Amberley Castle (K386) (redirect from Weather Adviser)
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...
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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...
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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...
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used for recording and give output readings of various aspects of the weather. Weather stations typically have these following instruments: Thermometer for...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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HMS Pevensey Castle (K449) (redirect from Weather Monitor)
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...
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included ships at sea and the weather stations at Valentia Observatory and Blacksod Point, in neutral Ireland; German use of weather ships also exposed...
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Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar (WSR) and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its...
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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...
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observations from ships, weather buoys, weather satellites, and numerical weather prediction have been used to diagnose and help forecast weather over the Earth's...
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HMS Rushen Castle (K372) (redirect from Weather Surveyor)
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...
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Airport weather stations are automated sensor suites which are designed to serve aviation and meteorological operations, weather forecasting and climatology...
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Sea Cloud (category Weather ships)
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...
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USS El Paso (PF-41) (category Weather ships)
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...
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USS Shreveport (PF-23) (category Weather ships)
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...
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Castle-class corvette (section Ships)
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...
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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...
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Saxony (disambiguation) (section Ships)
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...
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Coburg Dock, Port of Liverpool, England German weather ship WBS 2 Coburg, a Kriegsmarine weather ship Operation Coburg, a 1968 Australian and New Zealand...
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An automatic weather station (AWS) is an automated version of the traditional weather station, either to save human labor or to enable measurements from...
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USS Asterion (AK-100) (category Weather ships)
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...
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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...
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Weather modification is the act of intentionally manipulating or altering the weather. The most common form of weather modification is cloud seeding, which...
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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...
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MS Polarfront (category Weather ships)
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...
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