Electric conductivity of rain water in the cloud over the island of Hawaii

Makoto Komabayasi; Kenji Isono

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v19i3.9810

Electric conductivity of rain water in the cloud over the island of Hawaii

Tellus

Volume 19 (1967): Issue 3

By: Makoto Komabayasi and Kenji Isono

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|Jan 1967

Abstract

On the basis of observations by means of radiosonde equipment utilizing a rain water collecting funnel and an electric conductivity cell, it has been found that the electric conductivity of rain water in a cloud decreased with increasing height above the cloud base over the Island of Hawaii during the summer in 1965.

At the ground very near to the cloud base, the variation of the electric conductivity of rain water with respect to time during a shower was observed for each size of raindrop by means of raindrop spectrographs.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v19i3.9810 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554

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Language: English

Page range: 408 - 419

Submitted on: Nov 27, 1967

Published on: Jan 1, 1967

Published by: Stockholm University Press

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© 1967 Makoto Komabayasi, Kenji Isono, published by Stockholm University Press
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