Measurements of drop size distribution in the southwestern Amazon basin

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 107, Issue 20, 2002, Pages LBA-19-1-LBA-19-15

  Tokay, Ali ^a   Kruger, Anton ^b   Krajewski, Witold F ^b   Kucera, Paul A ^b,d   Filho, Augusto Jose Pereira ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b IA United States   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

0320 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Cloud physics and chemistry; 1854 Hydrology: Precipitation (3354); 1894 Hydrology: Instruments and techniques; Drop size distribution; Optical and impact disdrometers; Rainfall measurement; Very large drops

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DROP FORMATION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; METEOROLOGY; POLARIZATION; RAIN; RAIN GAGES;

EXPERIMENT; GEOPHYSICS; RADAR; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SENSOR;

AMAZON BASIN; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 36448950903     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JD000355     Document Type: Article

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