wet bulbing
English
Alternative forms
- wet-bulbing
Etymology
wet + bulb + -ing, after the wet bulb of a psychrometer which is cooled by evaporation.
English
wet bulbing (uncountable)
- (meteorology) Cooling caused by evaporation.
- 2017, “Snowstorm of December 8, 2017”, in National Weather Service:
- […] by daybreak, many areas had made the change to snow thanks to a few variables: colder air moving in from the north; a period of drier air aloft that allowed for evaporative cooling/wet bulbing; and higher precipitation rates.
- 2019, Ashraful Islam et al., “Design and Evaluation of Sensor Housing for Boundary Layer Profiling Using Multirotors”, in Sensors, volume 19, number 11, DOI: :
- This article describes and evaluates a novel sensor housing designed to shield airborne sensors from artificial heat sources and artificial wet-bulbing while pulling air from outside the rotor wash influence.