Retrieval of arbitrarily shaped raindrop size distributions from wind profiler measurements

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 433-442

  Kobayashi, Takahisa ^a   Adachi, Ahoro ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; DROP BREAKUP; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STATISTICAL METHODS; WIND;

DOPPLER SPECTRA; DROP SIZE; RAINDROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TURBULENT SPECTRUM;

RAIN;

DOPPLER RADAR; RAINDROP; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 20444490269     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH1705.1     Document Type: Article

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