Statistical collapse of stratiform and convective drop diameter distributions at the ground

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 24, 2010, Pages

  Ignaccolo, M ^a,b   De Michele, C ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Hydraulic Environmental Roads and Surveying Engineering ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; DROPS;

AUSTRALIA; CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; DROP DIAMETERS; EMPIRICAL PROBABILITIES; INVARIANT DISTRIBUTION; RENORMALIZATION; SINGLE CURVES;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DROPLET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; STRATIFORM CLOUD;

EID: 78650447405     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045454     Document Type: Article

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