nephoscope
Sign in to saveA nephoscope is a 19th-century instrument for measuring the altitude, direction, and velocity of clouds, using transit-time measurement. This is different from a nephometer, which is an instrument used in measuring the amount of cloudiness.
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- Nephoscope
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- Mirror Nephoscope
- Laboratory equipment.uses
- Measuring the altitude, direction, and velocity of clouds
- Laboratory equipment.inventor
- Carl Gottfrid Fineman, Louis Besson and Mikhail Pomortsev
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- Mirror nephoscope
- Comb nephoscope
- Grid nephoscope
- Russian nephoscope
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A nephoscope is a 19th-century instrument for measuring the altitude, direction, and velocity of clouds, using transit-time measurement. This is different from a nephometer, which is an instrument used in measuring the amount of cloudiness.
==Description== A nephoscope emits a light ray, which strikes and reflects off the base of a targeted cloud. The distance to the cloud can be estimated using the delay between sending the light ray and receiving it back: