Electrical substitution radiometer

From Glossary of Meteorology



electrical substitution radiometer

A radiometer for which the output of the thermal detector is measured as the detector is alternately exposed to a radiant energy source and then to a known internal electrical heating.

Radiant heating per unit area of an entrance aperture is then equated to the electrical energy used to equivalently heat the detector.


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