Use of an Economical Thermal Transducer as a Net Radiometer

Leo J. Fritschen Iowa State College

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An instrument used to measure net radiation is described. A number of these instruments, because of their size and inexpensiveness, can be used within an experiment when connected to a single recorder by a switching mechanism.

1 Journal Paper No. J-3536 of the Iowa Agricultural and Home Economics Experiment Station, Ames, Iowa. Project No. 1359. This work partially supported by U. S. Weather Bureau Contract 9295.

2 Research Associate in Agricultural Climatology, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa and Director of the Institute of Physics and Meteorology, University of Wageningen, Netherlands, guest professor at Iowa State College 1957–1958.

An instrument used to measure net radiation is described. A number of these instruments, because of their size and inexpensiveness, can be used within an experiment when connected to a single recorder by a switching mechanism.

1 Journal Paper No. J-3536 of the Iowa Agricultural and Home Economics Experiment Station, Ames, Iowa. Project No. 1359. This work partially supported by U. S. Weather Bureau Contract 9295.

2 Research Associate in Agricultural Climatology, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa and Director of the Institute of Physics and Meteorology, University of Wageningen, Netherlands, guest professor at Iowa State College 1957–1958.

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