Measuring 98 by 217cm (38 by 95 inches), it is to be transported in protective crates fitted with shock absorbers and sensors to measure temperature and humidity.
In an area of a few tens of square kilometres around this tower, the researchers will place further sensors in the soil and in local streams, to measure temperature, carbon-dioxide and nutrient levels, along with rates of root growth and the activities of microbes.
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Today, hundreds of floats deployed under the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), coordinated by UNESCO and largely supported by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), are used to measure ocean temperature, salinity and tsunami risk.
But by the Berkeley team's analysis, the global temperature correlates more closely with the state of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) index - a measure of sea surface temperature in the north Atlantic.
They mounted sensors on white whales to measure the salinity and temperature patterns of the fjord during its initial winter freezing.
Two rangers take turns climbing Helvellyn to measure wind speed and temperature.
Probes at the nose and mouth measure air flow and temperature.
On April 21st Stephen Klineberg, a sociologist at Rice University, brought out the 2010 edition of his Houston Area Survey, an annual measure of the civic temperature.
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Below the cameras is a weather-monitoring station to measure wind, humidity, temperature and radiation.
The new digital anemometer will measure both wind speed and temperature.
Dr Pollack has worked out how to measure the earth's temperature several hundred years ago by studying the actual heat that once made it warm.
Hurtling towards the stratosphere the balloon was fitted with weather instruments designed to measure, among other things, temperature, pressure and wind speed.
Based on the Phoenix lander, the craft is tasked with giving us a peek beneath the planet's surface, armed with tools that include a geodetic instrument from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which will be used to calculate Mars' rotation axis, a seismic wave sensor and a subsurface heat probe, to measure the planet's internal temperature.
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In water the temperature changes are a good measure of relative enthalpy changes.
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Heating degree days are a measure of how long and how far the temperature stays below 65 degrees, that being the point at which people reach for their thermostats.
In the meantime, Weather Channel has used a simpler measure, called "feels like, " to express temperature in a temperature-like number, taking into account wind chill at low temperatures and humidity at high temperatures.
BizEE Software, a South Wales, U.K., company that develops software to help building managers assess their energy-fuel needs, publishes a measure called degree days for places around the world that highlights this variation in temperature.
"Through embedded sensors, the probes can measure a tornado's wind speed and direction, barometric pressure, humidity, and temperature, " the magazine wrote.
Was this fluctuation real, or was it merely a glitch in the equipment used to measure the decay, induced by the change of seasons, with the accompanying changes in temperature and humidity?
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