radiometer
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Britain also supplied the radiometer, from Thales Alenia Space UK, and the imager, from Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.
From BBC • May 28, 2024
The instrument, a mini microwave radiometer, can measure heat and light emanating from oxygen and water vapor in the air.
From The Verge • Jun. 10, 2022
The device they use is a microwave radiometer.
From Scientific American • Aug. 3, 2021
Every station except for the highest one is outfitted with a net radiometer, an instrument that measures incoming and outgoing radiation, and the lower stations also carry rain gauges and present weather sensors.
From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2019
In an atmosphere of ordinary density, the accession of heat which the vanes of a radiometer might receive from a radiant source would be diffused through the mass of the inclosed air.
From Scientific Culture, and Other Essays Second Edition; with Additions by Cooke, Josiah Parsons
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.