Surface meteorological instrumentation for BOBMEX

Temperature, pressure, and wind instrumentation in the Phoenix meteorological package

[1] The meteorological package (MET) on the Phoenix Lander is designed to provide information on the daily and seasonal variations in Mars near-polar weather during Martian late spring and summer. The present paper provides some background on the temperature, pressure, and wind instrumentation on the Phoenix MET station and their characterization. A separate paper addresses the MET lidar instru...

Shade material evaluation using a cattle response model and meteorological instrumentation.

Shade structures are often considered as one method of reducing stress in feedlot cattle. Selection of a suitable shade material can be difficult without data that quantify material effectiveness for stress reduction. A summer study was conducted during 2007 using instrumented shade structures in conjunction with meteorological measurements to estimate relative effectiveness of various shade ma...

Spatial Interpolation of Surface Weather Observations in Alpine Meteorological Services

Solar surface irradiance from new meteorological satellite data

This paper presents the first prototype of a new method, for assessing solar surface irradiance, benefiting from advanced products derived from recent Earth Observation missions. This method -called Heliosat-4is based on the radiative transfer model libRadtran and will provide direct, diffuse components and spectral distribution of solar surface irradiance every 3 km and 1⁄4 h over Europe and A...

Investigation of strand surface defects using mould instrumentation and modelling

The surfaces of continuously cast steel blooms exhibit a variety of surface features and defects, which were investigated to reveal the interactions at the meniscus between the steel shell and interfacial flux layers that caused them. One such defect formed at periodic intervals along the surface of first and second blooms in a sequence. It was characterised by gradually deepening oscillation m...