Rebaviour of tbe electric conductivity of tbe precipitations

• Main Author: A. MURRI
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) 1970-06-01
• Series: Annals of Geophysics
• Online Access: http://www.annalsofgeophysics.eu/index.php/annals/article/view/5147

Continuing the researl'hes on the preci]litations, at the<br />)[cteurulogieal Observatory of )[acerata and the l'hysies lllstitute uf the<br />Ulliversity of Camerillo, ItUrillg the years 1967/08/69/70 measnrenwnts have<br />beell catTied uut un the conductivity of Jiquid amI solid predpitatiolls with<br />the aim of determining- the beha viuur at differellt altit1HIes.<br />lt hM thus bcen found that the conductivity decrca~cs lillearly ill<br />the eOllr.~e of the raill Cali iC the willd remains cUllstallt ill dirertion, while<br />the litwar hehaviollr ceases with the changing of diredinn of the witllt.<br />The behaviour nf the conductivity is analogou~ at the two (juntaH of obHer.<br />valiun, except the value of the same whirh appears millor at higher quota.<br />The law of di.~trihution of the (~otllludivity, considerell as reganis the llellsity<br />of rainfall, may be re]ll'esenteli with a ]Jarticular fllnction whkh has belm<br />calculated. However the dispersion of tlte values appears considerable, in<br />re1ation to the llifferent meteurolog-iral situat ions that aceumpanied the Cali<br />uf the pn'(~i]litatinns, ohjed of the researclt. There have also been Jixell<br />the tran~pnrt equations that reglllatll, in turblllent air maHSt's, the lliffllsion<br />Hf tlw partides tu which the conductivity of the raills is due.