Influence of the subgrid variability of the raindrop size distribution on radar rainfall estimators

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 780-785

  Jaffrain, Joël ^a   Berne, Alexis ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Drop size distribution; Hydrometeorology; Radars Radar observations; Rainfall

Indexed keywords

DISDROMETER MEASUREMENT; DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; POINT MEASUREMENT; POWER-LAW; RADAR DATA; RADAR PIXELS; RADAR RAINFALL; RAIN RATES; RAIN-RATE ESTIMATION; RAINDROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPECIFIC DIFFERENTIAL PHASE; SUB-GRID VARIABILITY;

DROPS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PIXELS; RAIN; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; PIXEL; POWER LAW; RADAR IMAGERY; RAINDROP; RAINFALL; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84861736013     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-0185.1     Document Type: Article

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