DEID equipment at Alta (IMAGE)

University of Utah

DEID equipment at Alta

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Graduate student Ryan Szczerbinski examines instrumentation called a Differential Emissivity Imaging Disdrometer, or DEID, developed by University of Utah researchers and installed at Alta near the top of Little Cottonwood Canyon. The equipment measures the hydrometeor mass, size and density of snowflakes.

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Tim Garrett, University of Utah

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