INDEX 



Aerographer's mate rating, 1-15 

 advancement, 6-13 



examination procedures, 12 



personnel advancement requirement (PAR) 

 program NAVPER3 1414/1, 7-11 



preparing for advancement, 6 



profile analysis form, 13 



qualifying for advancement, 11 



subject-matter section identification sheet, 13 



who will be advanced?, 12 

 enlisted rating structure, 1 

 sources of information, 13-15 



educational services officer, 15 



training films, 13-15 



training petty officer, 15 

 Air almanac, 414 



Airglow, 370 



Air masses, 312-324 

 classification, 312 

 modification, 313-316 



age, 315 



summary, 315 



surface conditions, 315 



trajectory, 315 



weather, 316 

 properties, 322 

 source regions, 312 



antarctic air, 313 



arctic air, 313 



continental polar air, 313 



continental tropical air, 313 



equatorial air, 313 



maritime polar air, 313 



maritime tropical air, 313 

 weather, 316-321 



summer air masses, 321 



winter air masses, 317 



Air masses and fronts, 312-345 

 air masses, 312-324 



classification, 312 



modification, 313-316 



properties, 322 



source regions, 312 



weather, 316-321 

 fronts, 324-336 



frontal movement, 331 



pressure at fronts, 330 



relation of fronts to air masses, 324 



relation of fronts to cyclones, 331 

 tropical systems, 336-345 



intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ), 337 



tropical cyclones, 339 



tropical waves, 336 



Altimeters, 28 



pressure altimeters, 28 



radar altimeters, 29 



radio altimeters, 29 

 AN/FPS-81, radar set, 104 

 AN/FPS-106, radar set, 104 

 AN/GMQ-10 ( ), transmissometer, 92-101 



components, 92 



maintenance, 98 



office installation, 101 



operation, 93-98 



test equipment, 101 



theory of operation, 98 

 An/GMQ-13 ( ), cloud height set, 86-91 

 AN/GMQ-14 ( ), 61 

 AN/GMQ-29 ( ), 64-66 



AN nomenclature system, appendix X, 438-442 

 AN/PMQ-3 ( ), wind measuring set, 36-39 



maintenance, 38 



operation, 36 

 AN/TMQ-29 navy transportable terminal and AN/ 



SMQ-10 shipboard readout equipment, 115 

 AN/UMQ-5 ( ), wind measuring set, 39-46 



components, 39-43 



filling pens, 45 



indicator ID-300 ( )/UMQ-5, 39-42 



indicator ID-586/UMQ-5, 42 



indicators GMQ-29/UMQ-5, 42 



indicator maintenance, 46 



installation of chart, 44 



installation of chart drive mechanism, 44 



installation of chart speed change gears, 43 



installation of ink tanks and pens, 45 



maintenance, 46 



model differences/UMQ-5, 43 



mounting options, 39 



operation, 43-45 



recorder maintenance, 46 



recorder RD-108( )/UMQ-5, 42 



removing chart from takeup reel, 45 



setting chart to time, 45 



support MT-535/UMQ-5, 39 



transmitter and indicators, 45 



transmitter maintenance, 46 



transmitter ML-400( )/UMQ-5, 39 



unrolling chart for examination, 45 



zeroing speed pen, 45 

 AN/UXH-2( ) facsimile recorder, 131 

 Aneroid barometers, 25-28 



maintenance, 28 



precision aneroid barometer (ML-448/UM), 

 26 

 Appendix I, the metric system, 422-423 

 Appendix II, glossary, 424-427 

 Appendix III, explanation of weather code figures 

 and symbols, 428 



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