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Title

The NCAR Vertical Wind Tunnel: a Vertical Wind Tunnel for Controlling the Motion and Environment of Atmospheric Particles

Abstract

This report describes a Vertical Wind Tunnel installed at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) for cloud physics research. The main purpose of this installation is to offset the vertical fall speed of cloud and precipitation particles with a low-turbulence, variable-speed, upward-moving column of air in which the temperature, moisture, and electrical environment can be controlled in a selected observable region of laboratory space. The Vertical Wind Tunnel can be used for study and calibration of cloud physics instruments.

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document

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code

http://n2t.net/ark:/85065/d7fx78vn

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eng

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geoscientificInformation

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Text

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reference date

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publication

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2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

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EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > SENSOR CHARACTERISTICS

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD MICROPHYSICS

originating controlled vocabulary

title

U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Global Change Master Directory

reference date

date type

revision

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2021-09-17

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publication

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1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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Copyright Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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None

Responsible organisations

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contact position

OpenSky Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Library

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

opensky@ucar.edu

web address

http://opensky.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

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pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

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contact position

OpenSky Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Library

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

opensky@ucar.edu

web address

http://opensky.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2023-08-18T18:04:16.347696

Metadata language

eng; USA