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.
- Publication:
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Unknown
- Pub Date:
- June 1980
- Bibcode:
- 1980edrb.rept.....B
- Keywords:
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- Carbon Dioxide Lasers;
- Drop Size;
- Fog;
- Moisture Content;
- Particle Size Distribution;
- Absorptivity;
- Aerosols;
- Experiment Design;
- Extinction;
- Test Chambers;
- Lasers and Masers