How to Use radiometer in a Sentence

radiometer

noun

• Now all the data—radar, radiometer, dropsonde—is right in front of him.
  — Bucky McMahon, Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2017
• Data from aircraft radiometers, which infer surface wind speed from above by looking at the state of the sea surface.
  — Adam Sobel, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2019
• The qualification unit is expected to start providing radiometer data within a few weeks.
  — Meghan Herbst, Wired, 25 June 2021
• Each radiometer is assigned a different wavelength and a different region of Jupiter's vast atmosphere.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 12 Dec. 2017
• The scanners employ a millimeter wave radiometer which uses radio frequency waves to image visitors.
  — Joseph Calamia, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2010
• Orbiting Jupiter since July 2016, the craft is using its infrared spectrometer and microwave radiometer to search for signs of water and its abundances.
  — Amber Jorgenson, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2018
• For example, the spacecraft's microwave radiometer will look into Europa’s crust, obtaining data on its icy composition and temperature.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2022
• In 1879, Maxwell attempted to describe the turning vanes of the Crookes radiometer by modeling the thin air inside the vacuum chamber as a fluid.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 July 2015
• The radiometer detects naturally occurring radiation and calculates surface wind speed, rain rate, and sea surface temperatures.
  — Bucky McMahon, Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2017
• Every station except for the highest one is outfitted with a net radiometer, an instrument that measures incoming and outgoing radiation, and the lower stations also carry rain gauges and present weather sensors.
  — Maddie Stone, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Dec. 2019
• With the radiometer, the Juno team can create heat maps of Jupiter’s atmospheric layers and look for circular features at different altitudes in the atmosphere, which indicate the presence of a vortex.
  — Katrina Miller, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2021
• To study the Great Red Spot, the Juno probe was reoriented from its normal sideways attitude, so that the microwave radiometer on board could better reveal details of its vertical structure.
  — NBC News, 28 Oct. 2021
• The satellite’s microwave radiometer can detect subtle variations in sea-surface salinity, which is critical for studying ocean circulation, freshwater fluxes, and climate patterns.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
• Juno is also equipped with a handful of other scientific instruments, including an energetic particle detector, an ultraviolet imaging spectrograph and a microwave radiometer.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
• The mission was supposed to carry six instruments to the moon's surface — five Canadian payloads and a NASA radiometer flying under a NASA-CSA agreement.
  — Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 25 Mar. 2026