Weather bike: A bicycle-based weather station for observing local temperature variations

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 205-209

  Cassano, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STUDENTS; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

DIRECT MEASUREMENT; EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS; LOCAL CLIMATE; LOCAL TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL SCALE; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; WEATHER STATIONS;

BICYCLES;

EID: 84898603779     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00044.1     Document Type: Article

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