A Maximum Minimum Temperature System or MMTS is a temperature recording system that keeps track of the maximum and minimum temperatures that have occurred over some given time period.
The earliest, and still perhaps most familiar, form is the
Maximum minimum thermometer invented by
James Six in 1782.
Today a typical MMTS is a
thermistor
A thermistor is a type of resistor whose resistance is strongly dependent on temperature, more so than in standard resistors. The word thermistor is a portmanteau of ''thermal'' and ''resistor''.
Thermistors are divided based on their conduction ...
. This may be read locally or can transmit its results electronically.
See also
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SNOTEL 300px, Data from a SNOTEL site in Elko County, Nevada
SNOTEL is an automated system of snowpack and related climate sensors operated by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) of the United States Department of Agriculture in the Weste ...
References
Meteorological instrumentation and equipment
Thermometers
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