Improved Drop Generators for Calibration of Drop Spectrometers and Use in Laboratory Cloud Physics Experiments

Abstract

Drop generators have been developed at NCAR based on the ?wire egression? principle. They are outstanding in their flexibility and simplicity. Drops ranging in diameter from 6 ?m to 1 mm have been generated with one model. Application of the generators to calibration of NCAR particle cameras and the PMS Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe (FSSP) as well as applications to cloud physics laboratory research are described.