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Data source: instrument PIP

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Name Precipitation Imaging Probe
Acronym PIP
Description Measured Particle Size Range: 100 µm – 6.2 mm How it Works: Shadow images of particles passing through a collimated laser beam are projected onto a linear array of 64 photodetectors. The presence of a particle is registered by a change in the light level on each diode. The registered changes in the photodetectors are stored at a rate consistent with probe velocity and the instrument’s size resolution. Particle images are reconstructed from individual “slices,” where a slice is the state of the 64-element linear array at a given moment in time. A slice must be stored at each time interval that the particle advances through the beam a distance equal to the resolution of the probe. Source: http://www.dropletmeasurement.com/products/airborne/PIP (15.12.2014)
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