So when I drive to the office and sometimes get the shipping forecast, something has been nagging me: How do they know what the visibility is from an automatic weather ship? -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) 116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 145 2.0 Cloverleaf 156 V6 2.5 S2 Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see. www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk
I can think of a few ways, but no idea how they do it outside my own private reality. In my reality, one could possibly: flash a suitable wavelenght of light (say a laser) and measure how much got bounced back. This would only work for water vapour, but that's probably all you'd need.. One could have a target at one end of the ship and a detector at the other and measure how visible the target was. One could point a camera horizontally off the ship and measure how sharp the horizon appeared.
there don't seem to be any visibility data for the offshore weather stations, presumably becasue there isn't a MtGI
Catman typed: Forward scatter sensor measures the transmission of light (I think) through the water droplets in the atmosphere within the unit, and then this is extrapolated to an estimate of overall visibility. -- Rich B 1971 S2a 1995 XT600E 2006 GT1000 Oh, and a Ford Take out the obvious to email me.
Nige typed: YWHM in a minute. -- Rich B 1971 S2a 1995 XT600E 2006 GT1000 Oh, and a Ford Take out the obvious to email me.
But what if there's no trawler? -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) 116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 145 2.0 Cloverleaf 156 V6 2.5 S2 Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see. www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk
I prefer that answer, ta. -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) 116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 145 2.0 Cloverleaf 156 V6 2.5 S2 Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see. www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk
That might work Only any good if you could *see* the horizon IWHT. -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) 116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 145 2.0 Cloverleaf 156 V6 2.5 S2 Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see. www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk
<g> They state it in miles. -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) 116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 145 2.0 Cloverleaf 156 V6 2.5 S2 Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see. www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk
Lozzo typed: You owe me a laptop, you ****. -- Rich B 1971 S2a 1995 XT600E 2006 GT1000 Oh, and a Ford Take out the obvious to email me.
There's always a ferry. In the unlikely event of there being no local shipping the automatic weather ship can launch a target float or even a liferaft, as they are no longer needed for crew use. -- Dave GS850x2 XS650 SE6a "It's a moron working with power tools. How much more suspenseful can you get?" - House
Or it's dark -- Malc R1100RS old and tatty You laugh at me because I am different I laugh at you because you are all the same
Of course. That's what I like about UKRM, there's always an answer. -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) 116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 145 2.0 Cloverleaf 156 V6 2.5 S2 Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see. www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk
Sounds like a good premise for a movie. -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) 116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 145 2.0 Cloverleaf 156 V6 2.5 S2 Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see. www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk
