Experimentally Determined Relationship Between Extinction and Liquid Water Content,

Abstract

This paper reports the results of environmental chamber measurements of extinction coefficients at CO2 laser wavelengths and of liquid water content (LWC) of a variety of droplet size distributions. The liquid water content measurements were made with two recently developed systems which are described. The results are in general agreement with calculated results based on measured fog droplet size distributions and give further verification to prediction of a unique linear relation between extinction at approximately 11 micrometer and liquid water content of fogs for all size distributions with maximum particle radii less than or approximately equal to 14 micrometers. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA090368

Entities

People

  • Charles W. Bruce
  • Dorothy Bruce
  • Hans Burket
  • Young Paul Yee

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Absorption Coefficients
  • Carbon Dioxide Lasers
  • Coefficients
  • Condensation
  • Counters
  • Detectors
  • Laser Beams
  • Lasers
  • Measurement
  • Mixing
  • New Mexico
  • Particle Size
  • Particles
  • Power Meters
  • Refractive Index
  • Scattering
  • Three Dimensional

Readers

  • Aerosol Science/Aerosol Physics

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy