7. Front/Side View (Full Screen)

 

 

A full screen representation of a hydrometeor's front- and side view can be selected from the Main Screen by moving the mouse cursor on top of the "Front View" or "Side View" diagram icon and doubleclick the left mouse button.

 

7.1 Menu Buttons

 

button: STEP +

Pushing this button draws the front and the side view of the next hydrometeor in the

hydrometeor file. If the end of the time window is reached, an according message will be displayed.

 

button: STEP –

Pushing this button draws the front and the side view of the previous hydrometeor in the hydrometeor file.

 

button: MAIN

Pushing this button returns control to the Main Screen.

 

button: HELP

Pushing this button displays this window.

 

 

 

button: ASCII

Pushing this button provides an alpha-numeric output of the present hydrometeor's data to an ASCII textfile. The textfile is found in the same directory as the opened datafile resides.

 

button: CORR

Due to the measurement by line scan cameras horizontal velocities introduce distortions, as lines are shifted against each other. Pushing this button yields front/side views which are approximately corrected for this effect.

 

Front/Side View (Full Screen), same drop after application of treatment for effects of horizontal velocity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

button: Classify
Pushing this button yields into a dialog, within you could specify the type of the hydrometeor. Drops may manually be classified as rain, melting, snow, hail, manual (calibration spheres) or invalid.This information will be written back to the file.

Caution: Before making this changes you should backup the original data file.

 

 

 

 

7.2 Diagram Header

The diagram header contains information on filter settings and also includes the following fields.

 

In addition, information on each drop view is written into the according diagram window. The information given for front respectively side view consists of oblateness, height, width and horizontal velocity component. Note that an arrow in the horizontal velocity component indicates the direction of the drop relative to the particular camera system.