List of weather instruments
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This is a list of devices used for recording various aspects of the weather.
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[edit] Instrumentation
- Anemometer
- Barograph
- Barometer
- Ceiling balloon
- Ceiling projector
- Ceilometer
- Dark adaptor goggles
- Disdrometer
- Field mill
- Hygrometer
- Ice Accretion Indicator
- LIDAR
- Lightning detector
- Nephelometer
- Nephoscope
- Pyranometer
- Radiosonde
- Rain gauge
- Snow gauge
- SODAR
- Solarimeter
- Sounding rocket
- Stevenson screen
- Sunshine recorders
- Thermograph
- Thermometer
- Weather balloon
- Weather vane
- Windsock
- Wind profiler
[edit] Observation systems
- Argo
- Global Atmosphere Watch
- Automatic weather station
- Remote Automated Weather Stations (RAWS)
- Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS)
- Meteorological Aerodrome Report (METAR)
- NEXRAD radar
- Global Sea Level Observing System
- SST buoys
- Hurricane Hunters
- Dropsonde
- Weather balloon
[edit] Obsolete observation systems
[edit] Orbital instrumentation
- AIRS
- AMSU-A
- ASTER
- Aqua
- Aura
- AVHRR
- CALIPSO
- CloudSat
- CERES
- DMC
- Envisat
- EROS
- GOES
- GOMOS
- GRACE
- Hydros
- ICESat
- IKONOS
- Jason-1
- Landsat
- MERIS
- MetOp
- Meteor
- Meteosat
- MLS
- MIPAS
- MISR
- MODIS
- MOPITT
- MTSAT
- NMP
- NOAA-N'
- NPOESS
- OMI
- OCO
- PARASOL
- QuickBird
- QuikSCAT
- RADARSAT-1
- SCIAMACHY
- SeaWiFS
- SORCE
- SPOT
- TES
- Terra
- TRMM
