Stevenson screens may also be known as a cotton region shelter, an instrument shelter, a thermometer shelter, a thermoscreen or a thermometer screen.
Stevenson Screen
The Stevenson Screen or thermometer screen is a standard shelter (from rain, snow and high winds, but also leaves and animals) for meteorological instruments, ...
Stevenson Screen
A white box with ventilated sides that is used to house weather instruments and protect them from direct sunlight
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Stevenson Screen
A standard white louvered box which contains standard meteorological instruments such as wet and dry-bulb thermometers. All BoM weather stations have their instruments inside a Stevenson screen.
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Stevenson Screen
A shelter used by all Meteorological Offices to house thermometers and hygrometers.
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The two thermometers may be placed in a Stevenson screen, or whirled together in a sling (sling psychrometer), or ventilated by drawing air past them with an electric fan (aspirating psychrometer).
See cotton-region shelter, Stevenson screen. Instrument weather In aviation terminology, route or terminal weather conditions of sufficiently low visibility to require the operation of aircraft under instrument flight rules.
Instrument shelters are meant to house thermometric instruments, such as psychrometers, maximum and minimum thermometers, hygrothermographs, etc. See airways shelter, cotton- region shelter, Stevenson screen.
 See also: Meteor, Thermometer, Air, Temperature, Maximum
  
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