laser ceilometer

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laser ceilometer [′lā·zər sē′läm·əd·ər]

(engineering)

A ceilometer in which the time taken by a light pulse from a ground laser to travel straight up to a cloud ceiling and be reflected to a receiving photomultiplier is measured and converted into a cathode-ray display that indicates cloud-base height.

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