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`cumulonimbus' and `towering cumulus' meaning

[Ondrej J. <ne...@po...>]

                                        Maxim, 11:54:35
                                        29. jun 2002 (sobota)
Geetings!

	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.

    $this->strings['cumulonimbus']     = ' cumulonimbus';
    $this->strings['towering_cumulus'] = ' towering cumulus';

	Is there some explainations of used weather terms in phpWeather? I'm
not very familiar with meteorology and it will help me a lot. :)

	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. 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.

	Thanks,

	=Nepto=
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Re: `cumulonimbus' and `towering cumulus' meaning

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

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

>                                         Maxim, 11:54:35
>                                         29. jun 2002 (sobota)
> Geetings!
>=20
> 	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.
>=20
>    $this->strings['cumulonimbus']     =3D ' cumulonimbus';
>    $this->strings['towering_cumulus'] =3D ' towering cumulus';
>=20
> 	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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