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Snow survey work - measuring snow depth to gauge the spring runoffIn: The Boy with the U.S. Weather Men, 1917, p. 56
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Measuring the Blizzard's Rage.Shielded snow gauge in the Northwest to register snow-fall.In: The Boy with the U.S. Weather Men, 1917, p. 224
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Forest Service employees measuring snow depth
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A cooperative weather station at Granger, UtahVolunteers observe temperature, precipitation, sky conditions, etc.
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The rain gage at the cooperative weather station at Granger, Utah
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The rain gage at U. S. Smelting Co. cooperative weather station - Midvale, Utah
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The Au water-stage recorder for lakes and riversVery similar to tide gauges
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Meteorologist reading temperature on top of Weather Bureau facility
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Weather station on Pikes PeakThis station was manned sporadically during the late Nineteenth Century
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The weather station at Cape Henry, VirginiaWhat a grand place to observe the weather that must have been!
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Dodge City, Kansas weather station after snowfall.The building was located on the corner of Spruce St. and Central Ave.
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Mr. Peter Wood and child at Amarillo, Texas, weather station.
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An Angstrom pyranometer, used to measure albebo. Albedo is the ratio of theamount of electromagnetic radiation reflected by a body to the amount incidentupon it, commonly expressed as a percentage. Ice has a very high albedo whiledark surfaces have
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An Angstrom pyranometer, used to measure albebo. Albedo is the ratio of theamount of electromagnetic radiation reflected by a body to the amount incidentupon it, commonly expressed as a percentage. Ice has a very high albedo whiledark surfaces have
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Using an Angstrom pyranometer ( an albedometer) to measure albedo. Albedo isthe ratio of the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected by a body to theamount incident upon it, commonly expressed as a percentage. Ice has a very high albedo while
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Evaporation station and check pan at private laboratory of Robert Horton.In: Monthly Weather Review, 1919 September, p. 608.
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L.- mercurial barometer. R. - sling psychrometer.In: The Aims and Methods of Meteorological Work by Cleveland Abbe. In: Maryland Weather Service, Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1899. Volume I. Page 306.
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Top of the U. S. Weather Bureau Building in Washington, D. C.In: The Aims and Methods of Meteorological Work by Cleveland Abbe. In: Maryland Weather Service, Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1899. Volume I. Page 307.
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Rain-gauge.In: The Aims and Methods of Meteorological Work by Cleveland Abbe. In: Maryland Weather Service, Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1899. Volume I. Page 314.
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Tipping-bucket rain gauge.In: The Aims and Methods of Meteorological Work by Cleveland Abbe. In: Maryland Weather Service, Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1899. Volume I. Page 314.
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