A network of disdrometers to quantify the small-scale variability of the raindrop size distribution

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Jaffrain, Joël ^a   Studzinski, André ^a   Berne, Alexis ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; DATA TRANSMISSION; DISDROMETER MEASUREMENT; DISDROMETERS; DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS; FRONTAL PRECIPITATION; MICROPHYSICAL PROCESS; POWER SUPPLY; RADIO PACKETS; RAIN RATES; RAINDROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; REAL-TIME ACCESS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES; SMALL SCALE; SMALL SCALE VARIABILITY; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SWITZERLAND; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; WEATHER MODELING; WEATHER RADARS;

DROPS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADIO COMMUNICATION; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLOUD; DATA SET; DIAMETER; ESTIMATION METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIXEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RADAR; RAINDROP; REMOTE SENSING; RESOLUTION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER;

LAUSANNE; SWITZERLAND; VAUD;

EID: 79955606964     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009872     Document Type: Article

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