Microprocessor field impactometer calibration: Do we measure drop's momentum or their kinetic energy?

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 742-753

  Licznar, Paweł ^a   Łomotowski, Janusz ^a   Błoński, Sławomir ^b   Ciach, Grzegorz J ^c  

^a WROC AW UNIVERSITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CHANNEL CAPACITY; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; GAGES; KINETIC ENERGY; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MOMENTUM; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (AMS); APPLIED (CO); CALIBRATION CURVES; DIFFERENT SIZES; FALL VELOCITIES; FIELD APPLICATIONS; FIELD MEASUREMENTS; HIGH-SPEED PHOTOGRAPHY; KINETIC (POLYM.); LABORATORY CONDITIONS; RAIN GAUGES; RAINFALL RATES; SENSOR OUTPUTS; WATERDROPS;

HIGH SPEED PHOTOGRAPHY;

CALIBRATION; DATA PROCESSING; KINETIC ENERGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PIEZOELECTRICITY; RAINGAUGE;

EID: 45849092981     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JTECHA938.1     Document Type: Article

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