WET BULB THERMOMETER


Meaning of WET BULB THERMOMETER in English

A thermometer used to measure the lowest temperature in the ambient atmosphere in its natural state by evaporating water from a wet muslin-covered bulb of a thermometer. The wet bulb temperature is used to compute dew point and relative humidity. One of the two thermometers that make up a psychrometer.

Weather and meteorology English vocabulary.      Английский словарь погоды и метеорологии .