Quantification of the small-scale spatial structure of the raindrop size distribution from a network of disdrometers

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 941-953

  Jaffrain, JoëL ^a   Berne, Alexis ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Field experiments; Hydrometeorology; Microscale processes variability; Subgrid scale processes

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT SIZES; DISDROMETERS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; MICRO-SCALES; POINT MEASUREMENT; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION; RAIN RATES; RAINDROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; RAINFALL EVENT; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SUBGRID SCALE; SWITZERLAND; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TIME STEP; VARIOGRAMS;

DROPS; ESTIMATION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

RAIN;

HYDROMETEOROLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; RAINDROP; RAINFALL; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

LAUSANNE; SWITZERLAND; VAUD;

EID: 84861731236     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-0136.1     Document Type: Article

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