With the iPhone six array of sensors, it is no wonder scientists are jumping on board. For example,
OpenSignal is putting the barometer to use as old-fashioned weather sensors. Their app will download to any iPhone with iOS 8, with Apple’s two newest handsets you can take pressure readings, which Open Signal will plop into its crowdsourced weather map. Those readings combined with the barometric pressure measurements of Android users can then be used to give an ever-updating look at the pressure changes in your area. The data is also being sent off to climatologists, such as the
University of Washington’s Cliff Mass, who are exploring ways of incorporating crowdsourced smartphone readings into future meteorology models.
Even
add-on components are becoming available. Soon crowd-sourced real-time weather data will
supplement satellite information to give us a better picture of our atmosphere. So you can do more than
make satellite calls.
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