wet bulbing

English

Alternative forms

• wet-bulbing

Etymology

wet +‎ bulb +‎ -ing, after the wet bulb of a psychrometer which is cooled by evaporation.

Noun

wet bulbing (uncountable)

1. (meteorology) Cooling caused by evaporation.
   • 2017, “Snowstorm of December 8, 2017”, in National Weather Service‎^[1]:

     […] 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.