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A cloud-droplet sampler for use on aircraft

✍ Scribed by P. Squires; C. A. Gillespie

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1952
Tongue
English
Weight
475 KB
Volume
78
Category
Article
ISSN
0035-9009

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

An instrument is described with which cloud‐droplet samples can be taken from an aircraft by exposing momentarily glass rods coated with magnesium oxide. Exposures can be repeated about every three seconds. (i.e., about every 200 m). The spectra found in a traverse through a cumulus are shown.

Features of the distribution of spectra can be determined which could not readily be found by methods which average over some distance, or by sampling methods not capable of being repeated so often. The samples are too widely spaced, however, to yield a coherent sequence of spectra across a cumulus.

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