Meanings
noundisdrometer (plural disdrometers)
plural disdrometers
- An instrument used to measure the drop-size distribution and velocity of falling hydrometeors.
The scale and logistics of Vortex2 are enormous. Some 30 vehicles will participate, including 10 mobile radar trucks, four weather-balloon launchers, and two vehicles bearing a total of four disdrometers (to measure the size distribution of rain or hail).
2009 May, Leora Frankel, “Funnel Vision”, in Corey S. Powell, Patrice G. Adcroft, Michael F. Di Ioia, editors, Discover, page 39
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