Disdrometer

A disdrometer in place in the Everglades.
A disdrometer is an instrument used to measure the drop size distribution and velocity of falling hydrometeors. Some disdrometers can distinguish between rain, graupel, and hail.

Disdrometer
Equipment that measures and records the size distribution of raindrops.
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Disdrometer: Equipment that measures and records the size distribution of raindrops.
Distortion: Change in a signal resulting in gross nonlinearities in signal processing or handling.

drop-size spectrometer"(Formerly called drop-size meter; also called disdrometer.) Any device that measures the size distribution of cloud droplets or raindrops, for example, certain optical particle probes.

Disdrometer Apparatus designed to measure and record the size distribution of raindrops as they occur in the atmosphere.

See also: Observation, Surface, Radar, Air, Force