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EA:  ATM_PROFILE_MEASUREMENT_TECHNIQUE

Status: STD 2005/06/07
Code: 127
Concept definition: The technique or method of collecting an <ATMOSPHERE_PROPERTY_SET> that is a series of measurements collected along a (roughly) vertical axis; atmospheric profile measurement technique.
 
Attribute value type: ENUMERATION
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Status Attribute label Enumerant label ▾ Concept definition Code Ref type Reference Supplemental references
STD
2005/06/07		 ATM_PROFILE_MEASUREMENT-
_TECHNIQUE		 SATELLITE Remotely sensed from an <ARTIFICIAL_SATELLITE>. 6 [APDS, "meteorological satellite"]
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2005/06/07		 ATM_PROFILE_MEASUREMENT-
_TECHNIQUE		 WIND_PROFILER Vertical profiles of the <WIND> are measured using Doppler radar operating in the VHF-UHF <<EM_BAND>> (30 megahertz-3 gigahertz) that determine the <<WIND_SPEED>> and <<WIND_DIRECTION>> by measuring the line-of-sight Doppler shift of scattered signals from refractive index fluctuations caused by turbulence; wind profiler. 7 IR [GMET, "wind profiler"]  
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