Vertical anemometer

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vertical anemometer[edit | edit source]

General name for an instrument designed to measure the vertical component of the wind speed.


See anemoclinometer;
compare vertical-axis anemometer.


The general name for instruments designed to measure either total wind speed or the speed of one or more linear components of the wind vector.

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