Effects of Airplane Flowfields on Cloud Water Content Measurements

Abstract

Hydrometeor concentrations seen by fuselage-mounted particle measurement instruments are distorted owing to flow around the airplane. A general, three-dimensional method is used to compute flow-caused concentration distortion for specific sampling sites on two C130 cloud physics research airplanes. Results are presented for a variety of hydrometeor types (rain, snow and ice) over broad ranges of particle size.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 30, 1975
Accession Number
ADA014807

Entities

People

  • Hillyer G. Norment

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Blood Coagulation Factors
  • Cloud Physics
  • Equations
  • Fluid Flow
  • Free Stream
  • Geometry
  • Measurement
  • New York
  • Particle Flux
  • Particle Size
  • Particles
  • Research Aircraft
  • Scattering
  • Space Environments
  • Three Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerodynamics.
  • Aerosol Science/Aerosol Physics
  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.