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DISDROMETER
Impact Disdrometer
Baseline Instrument, Guest
The impact disdrometer collects observations of the drop size spectra of rainfall. The sensor transforms the mechanical impact of each drop into an electrical pulse. With calibration, the size of each pulse is interpreted as the diameter of the observed drop.
ARM also deploys laser disdrometers (LDIS) and video disdrometers (VDIS). Data from all these instruments help improve the quantitative description of precipitation processes in climate models.
Primary Measurements
Contact
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Zeen ZhuLead Mentor Brookhaven National Laboratory
References
View all references- Wang et al. Analysis of Three Types of Collocated Disdrometer Measurements at the ARM Southern Great Plains Observatory. 2021. 10.2172/1828172.
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Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) | Reviewed
October 2024