An actinometer is an instrument that can measure the heating power of radiation. Actinometers are used in meteorology to measure solar radiation as pyranometers...
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Light meter (section Actinometers)
Sekonic L-358 "Flash Master" The earliest exposure meters were called actinometers (not to be confused with the scientific instrument with the same name)...
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A. (1956). "A new sensitive chemical actinometer. II. Potassium ferrioxalate as a standard chemical actinometer". Proceedings of the Royal Society of...
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(from Greek πῦρ (pyr) 'fire' and ἄνω (ano) 'above, sky') is a type of actinometer used for measuring solar irradiance on a planar surface and it is designed...
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Kosmos 156 (section Actinometer)
grid. The pictures were archived at the Hydrometeorological Center. The actinometer was designed to measure the outgoing longwave radiation (3–30 μm) from...
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Planar Hall sensor Radio direction finder Test light Voltage detector Actinometer Air pollution sensor Bedwetting alarm Ceilometer Dew warning Electrochemical...
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Valley, California, US, with an experiment inspired by John Herschel's actinometer. He also travels to Norway to observe and explain the defensive role...
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observation of stellar occultations. Air mass (astronomy) Absorptance Actinometer Aerosol Angstrom exponent Attenuation coefficient Beer–Lambert law Pyranometer...
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A net radiometer is a type of actinometer used to measure net radiation (NR) at the Earth's surface for meteorological applications. The name net radiometer...
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A. (1956). "A new sensitive chemical actinometer. II. Potassium ferrioxalate as a standard chemical actinometer". Proceedings of the Royal Society of...
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