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Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics

2016 year, number 8

Determination of precipitation type using the results of optical measurements of the precipitation microstructure characteristics

V.V. Kalchikhin, A.A. Kobzev, V.A. Korol’kov, A.A. Tikhomirov
Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 634055, Tomsk, 10/3, Academichesky ave.
Keywords: оптический осадкомер, вид осадков, размер и скорость частиц осадков, precipitation gauge, precipitation type, size and velocity of precipitation particles

Abstract

The paper presents the principles of measuring the precipitation characteristics imaging and analyzing precipitation particle shadows. The method of precipitation type determination is described. It is based on microstructure characteristics measurements using the optical precipitation gauge. The measurements of the size and velocity ratios for rain and snow precipitation particles are presented.