DEVEX-disdrometer evaluation experiment: Basic results and implications for hydrologic studies

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 311-325

  Krajewski, Witold F ^a   Kruger, Anton ^a   Caracciolo, Clelia ^b   Golé, Peter ^e   Barthes, Laurent ^e   Creutin, Jean Dominique ^d   Delahaye, Jean Yves ^e   Nikolopoulos, Efthymios I ^a   Ogden, Fred ^c   Vinson, Jean Paul ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^e SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Disdrometers; Rain drop size distribution; Rainfall

Indexed keywords

EROSION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; RAIN GAGES; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOILS;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; DISDROMETERS; RAIN DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

HYDROLOGY;

RAINDROP; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

IOWA; IOWA CITY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 29644446476     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2005.03.018     Document Type: Article

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