Profiles of raindrop size distributions as retrieved by microrain radars

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1930-1949

  Peters, Gerhard ^a   Fischer, Bernd ^a   Münster, Hans ^b   Clemens, Marco ^c   Wagner, Andreas ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^d DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

DOPPLER SPECTRA PROFILES; DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS (DSDS); MICRORAIN RADARS; RAIN RATES; RAINDROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

RAIN;

RADAR; RAINDROP; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 31944442526     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAM2316.1     Document Type: Article

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