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.