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

Emmanuel Porcheron, Pascal Lemaître, Jeroen van Beeck, Marc Brunel, Gérard Gréhan, Laurent Guiraud

Journal of the European Optical Society Rapid Publications · 2015 · 31 citations · 16 references

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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].

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