grid nephosope

grid nephosope

[′grid ′nef·ə‚skōp] (engineering) A nephoscope constructed of a grid work of bars mounted horizontally on the end of a vertical column and rotating freely about the vertical axis; the observer rotates the grid and adjusts the position until some feature of the cloud appears to move along the major axis of the grid; the azimuth angle at which the grid is set is taken as the direction of the cloud motion.