Re: `cumulonimbus' and `towering cumulus' meaning

[Martin G. <gim...@gi...>]

Ondrej Jombik <ne...@po...> writes:

>                                         Maxim, 11:54:35
>                                         29. jun 2002 (sobota)
> Geetings!
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> 	I have problems with the following phrases, because they are
> not in any from my dictonaries. I know the meaning of verb
> `cumulate', but I don't understand how it is connected with these
> phrases.
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>    $this->strings['cumulonimbus']     =3D ' cumulonimbus';
>    $this->strings['towering_cumulus'] =3D ' towering cumulus';
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> 	Is there some explainations of used weather terms in
> phpWeather? I'm not very familiar with meteorology and it will help
> me a lot. :)

No, there's currently no extra explainations... I can see that they
would be helpfull - I remember that I had to consult a Danish-English
dictionary several times when I did the Danish translation.

In your particular case, then the words 'cumulonimbus' and 'towering
cumulus' refer to a particular kind of clouds: big fluffy clouds.
There's a description on these webpages:

  http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/aric/eae/Weather/Older/Cumulonimbus_Clouds.html

  http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/aric/eae/Weather/Older/Cumulus_Clouds.html

> 	I also ask you for the way of testing translation. I
> downloaded around 400 metars and I'm going through every one and
> test if translation is correct. If not appropriate corrections are
> done.

Wow - you're being careful! Impressive.

> Although this, it does not seems to be good way, because metars are
> often similar or the same and thus I will not test all metar
> possibilities and cases.

Yes, I agree. I've thought about making a tool that could test the
different combinations - that would also make it easier for us to test
if PHP Weather can handle strange METARs.

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