Disdrometer
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A disdrometer is an instrument used to measure the drop size distribution and velocity of falling hydrometeors. Some disdrometers can distinguish between rain, graupel, and hail.
A disdrometer in place in the Everglades
Weather station
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A weather station is a facility, either on land or sea, with instruments and equipment for measuring atmospheric conditions to provide information for weather forecasts and to study the weather and cl
Weather station at Mildura Airport, Victoria, Australia.
The NOAA weather station at Wake Island harbor measures and transmits data on wind speed, atmospheric pressure, air temperature and tides.
Automated Surface Observing Stations are the source of the most commonly cited weather reports in the United States, located at airports in all major cities and most smaller ones
Roof-mounted weather station instruments