Journal of the European Optical Society - Rapid publications, Vol 10 (2015)

Development of a spectrometer for airborne measurement of droplet sizes in clouds

E. Porcheron, P. Lemaitre, J. Van Beeck, R. Vetrano, M. Brunel, G. Grehan, L. Guiraud

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The objective of this article is to present the development and the validation in flight of an airborne probe that can measure in clouds the size of droplets whose diameters are in the range [20 µm; 200 µm].

© The Authors. All rights reserved. [DOI: 10.2971/jeos.2015.15030]

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