ceilometer

ceil·om·e·ter

(sē-lŏm′ĭ-tər)

A photoelectric instrument for ascertaining cloud heights.

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ceilometer

(siːˈlɒmɪtə)

(Physical Geography) a device for determining the cloud ceiling, esp by means of a reflected light beam

[C20: from ceiling + -meter]

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ceil•om•e•ter

(siˈlɒm ɪ tər, sɪ-)

n.

an automatic device for measuring and recording the height of clouds by triangulation.

[1940–45; ceil (ing) + -o- + -meter]

ceilometer

an instrument for measuring by triangulation and recording the distance between the earth and the cloud ceiling.

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Germany's National Meteorological Service (DWD) pursues, among others, operational observations, like a C-band radar network, a ceilometer network, and observatories (e.g., the Richard Assmann Observatory in Lindenberg, east of Berlin).

A STANDARDIZED ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT DATA ARCHIVE FOR DISTRIBUTED CLOUD AND PRECIPITATION PROCESS-ORIENTED OBSERVATIONS IN CENTRAL EUROPE: A multitude of cloud and precipitation observations in Germany are now available in the new Standardized Atmospheric Measurement Data archive

When the sky is blocked by obscurations like fog, snow, or rain, we simply measure the vertical visibility, beyond which a ceilometer beam is extinguished.

CEILING AND VISIBILITY

Fellbach, Germany, February 23, 2018 --(PR.com)-- The product innovation Lufft CHM8k complements the ceilometer family of the South German metrology specialist and is suitable for applications in which low-lying measurement ranges in up to eight kilometers are in focus.

Suitable for Every Climate: Lufft Launches New CHM8k Cloud Height Sensor

In this paper, we use data of a ceilometer CYY-2B to discuss the accuracy of aerosol backscatter profile inversion.

Accuracy Analysis of the Aerosol Backscatter Coefficient Profiles Derived from the CYY-2B Ceilometer

The effects of a tall tower on nocturnal bird migration--a portable ceilometer study.

Effects of gas flaring on the behavior of night-migrating birds at an artificial oil-production island, Arctic Alaska

CloudForms 3.2 adds additional OpenStack workload management capabilities including: automated discovery; web-based console support; service catalog publishing and user dialog generation for OpenStack Orchestration (Heat) templates; deeper image and workload introspection capabilities with OpenStack Image Service (Glance) and OpenStack Compute (Nova) integration; and improved capacity and utilization management through expanded OpenStack Telemetry (Ceilometer) integration.

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The CAT II MET equipment includes sensors to measure variables essential to aviation safety wind, pressure, humidity and temperature, visibility, runway visual range (RVR), a rain gauge to measure precipitation levels, and a ceilometer to measure cloud base.

Victoria Falls: a clearer view: Jean Luc Devisscher explains how ADB is enabling Victoria Falls Airport to upgrade to CAT II status

- OpenStack Telemetry (Ceilometer): Improved access to metering data used for automated actions or billing / chargeback purposes.

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Alcafuz, "Variability of urban aerosols over Santiago, Chile: comparison of surface [PM.sub.10] concentrations and remote sensing with ceilometer and lidar," Aerosol and Air Quality Research, vol.

Carbonaceous aerosols in fine particulate matter of Santiago Metropolitan Area, Chile

The neural network combined with the natural orthogonal functions shows a good capability of exploiting information provided by other instruments, such as a laser ceilometer [31].

A dual-frequency method of eliminating liquid water radiation to remotely sense cloudy atmosphere by ground-based microwave radiometer

Heat, for cloud application orchestration, and Ceilometer, for resource

Red Hat advances OpenStack technologies

The time Between transmission and reception determines the height above the ceilometer of any reflecting particles, such as water or ice crystals in clouds.