How to Use radiometer in a Sentence

radiometer

noun

• Now all the data—radar, radiometer, dropsonde—is right in front of him.
  — Bucky McMahon, Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2017
• Scientists will use the microwave radiometer to identify what the lighter and darker patches on the moon are made of and how the moon maintains its frozen shell, per Space.com.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 June 2021
• Data from aircraft radiometers, which infer surface wind speed from above by looking at the state of the sea surface.
  — Adam Sobel, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2019
• In 1879, Maxwell attempted to describe the turning vanes of the Crookes radiometer by modeling the thin air inside the vacuum chamber as a fluid.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 July 2015
• To study the Great Red Spot, the Juno probe was reoriented from its normal sideways attitude, so that the microwave radiometer on board could better reveal details of its vertical structure.
  — NBC News, 28 Oct. 2021
• This finding emerged from another of Juno’s instruments: a microwave radiometer.
  — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 28 Oct. 2021
• Each radiometer is assigned a different wavelength and a different region of Jupiter's vast atmosphere.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 12 Dec. 2017
• With the radiometer, the Juno team can create heat maps of Jupiter’s atmospheric layers and look for circular features at different altitudes in the atmosphere, which indicate the presence of a vortex.
  — Katrina Miller, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2021
• The qualification unit is expected to start providing radiometer data within a few weeks.
  — Meghan Herbst, Wired, 25 June 2021
• Each unit is fitted with a microwave radiometer, so researchers and forecasters will be able to see phenomena not visible to the naked eye, like water vapor and temperature information.
  — Meghan Herbst, Wired, 25 June 2021
• The data from the dropsondes is combined with data collected by a device fixed below the right wing called a stepped frequency microwave radiometer, or SFMR, which gauges storm intensity by converting surface brightness into wind speed.
  — Valerie Bauerlein, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2018
• Every station except for the highest one is outfitted with a net radiometer, an instrument that measures incoming and outgoing radiation, and the lower stations also carry rain gauges and present weather sensors.
  — Maddie Stone, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Dec. 2019
• For example, the spacecraft's microwave radiometer will look into Europa’s crust, obtaining data on its icy composition and temperature.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2022
• The radiometer detects naturally occurring radiation and calculates surface wind speed, rain rate, and sea surface temperatures.
  — Bucky McMahon, Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024