Fitting an exponential distribution: Effect of discretization

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 93, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 636-640

  Fraile, Roberto ^a   Palencia, Covadonga ^a   Castro, Amaya ^a   Giaiotti, Dario ^b   Stel, Fulvio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

^b ARPA FVG   (Italy)

Author keywords

Exponential distribution; Hailstones; Hydrometeor size groups

Indexed keywords

DISCRETIZATION; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; HAILSTONES; HYDROMETEOR SIZE GROUPS; MOMENTS METHOD; SIZE GROUPS; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS;

CLOUDS; ERROR CORRECTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

CLASSIFICATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HAIL; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 67349212265     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2008.09.024     Document Type: Article

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