About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 56. Chapters: Satellite, Skywarn, Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System, Surface weather observation, Automated airport weather station, NetCDF, Weather buoy, FluxNet, Storm spotter, Climate and Forecast Metadata Conventions, GRIB, BUFR, Hierarchical Data Format, WindScan, Mesonet, Global Atmosphere Watch, MAFOR, Terminal Aerodrome Forecast, Meteorological reanalysis, Vis5D, Airline teletype system, Meteoalarm, Weather Underground, Automated Quality control of meteorological observations, GrADS, Low level windshear alert system, TAMDAR, OPeNDAP, High Frequency Data Link, MS Polarfront, NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis, PRECIS, AERONET, Inshore coastal areas of the United Kingdom, Yr.no, Colour state, AMeDAS, Climate Data Records, VisAD, Canwarn, List of coastal weather stations of the United Kingdom, ECMWF re-analysis, NOAA Observing System Architecture, Coastal-Marine Automated Network, Local storm report, Global Telecommunications System, Voluntary observing ship program, EMWIN, Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow network, Giovanni, SIGWX, Weatherpixie, ERA-40, HDF Explorer, Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay, Global Sea Level Observing System, NinJo, NOAA's Environmental Real-time Observation Network, Common Data Format, VAPOR, Skywarn Europe, Hazardous Inflight Weather Advisory Service, Ferret Data Visualization and Analysis, Cave5D, NetCDF Operators, Airplane observation, GAFOR, Distributed Oceanographic Data Systems, ROFOR. Excerpt: In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an object which has been placed into orbit by human endeavour. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon. History's first artificial satellite, the Sputnik 1, was launched by the Soviet Union in 1957. Since then, thousands of satellites have been launched into or...
