Estimation of rainfall drop size distributions from dual-frequency wind profiler spectra using deconvolution and a nonlinear least squares fitting technique

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 864-874

  Schafer, Robert ^a   Avery, Susan ^a   May, Peter ^a   Rajopadhyaya, Deepak ^a   Williams, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVOLUTION; DOPPLER EFFECT; GAGES; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SIZE DETERMINATION; TURBULENCE; WIND;

DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS;

RAIN;

DECONVOLUTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; RAINDROP; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0036612716     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0426(2002)019<0864:EORDSD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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