Variability of drop size distributions: Noise and noise filtering in disdrometric data

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 634-652

  Lee, GyuWon ^a   Zawadzki, Isztar ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROP FORMATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; METEOROLOGY; RADAR REFLECTION; RAIN; SCATTERING;

DISDROMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; NOISE FILTERING; SEQUENTIAL INTENSITY FILTERING TECHNIQUE (SIFT); WEIGHTED TOTAL LEAST SQUARES (WTLS);

SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

MEASUREMENT METHOD; RAINDROP; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 16444362232     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAM2222.1     Document Type: Article

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