A general approach to double-moment normalization of drop size distributions

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 264-281

  Lee, GyuWon ^a   Zawadzki, Isztar ^a   Szyrmer, Wanda ^a   Sempere Torres, Daniel ^b   Uijlenhoet, Remko ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; NATURAL CONVECTION; RAIN;

DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS (DSD); NORMALIZATION;

METEOROLOGY;

NUMERICAL METHOD; RAINDROP; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 1842832703     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(2004)043<0264:AGATDN>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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