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TEMPERATURE PROFILERS  

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  • TEMPERATURE PROFILERS are remote sensing devices that receives electromagnetic or acoustic waves transmitted through, emitted by, or reflected from the atmosphere in order to produce a vertical profile (a graph showing the variation of a meteorological event with height) of one or more atmospheric quantities such as temperature.

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https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/c4a0f956-d9eb-4fdb-8671-0b5fbe3037ba

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