can you please name some types of them and what purposes they serve?
2007-05-14 12:01:34 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
can i please have a nontechnical definition?
2007-05-14 12:14:36 · update #1
Surface weather stations gather current weather conditions at a specific location. They store this information or transmit it to a data base. This is used to determine climatological trends. When your TV weatherman gives the weather along with the temperature highs and lows plus the records highs and lows and the normal highs and lows for the date. He determined this from a climatological data base.
2007-05-14 12:19:06 · answer #1 · answered by DaveSFV 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Surface weather stations serve as current observation recorder. The collect on data for humidity, wind speed and direction, temperature and etc...
There are surface data reports which are read off from meteorological maps. Second we have what are called METAR (METeorological Aviation Report), and these type of data sets are produced from local near by airports.
2007-05-14 12:08:49 · answer #2 · answered by Invisble 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you are asking falls under the catigory of remote sensing
thi link will help
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/srh/jetstream/remote/remote_intro.htm
2007-05-18 10:21:24 · answer #3 · answered by NWS Storm Spotter 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋