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Monitoring fire experiments

Scientists monitoring fire experiments outside.

Stuart Anderson uses a Kestrel instrument to monitor weather conditions during fire experiments. The Kestrel instrument gives accurate readings of temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, dew point temperature and so on.

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Published: 3 November 2009Size: 1.53 MB
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