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| image title | Electronic weather stations |
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| caption | Electronic thermometers and hygrometers similar to those carried by radiosondes, powered by solar cells with a radio link to a base station, are used in automatic instrument stations like these. Both of them also have a wind vane to record wind direction and an anemometer to record wind speed. Left: the Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford. Right: the Abell Observatory at the Open University. |
| code | MI016 |
| Section | Meteorological instruments |
| Subsection | Surface-based instruments |
| image credit | © The Open University |
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