Modeling rainfall drop size distribution in southern England using a Gaussian Mixture Model

Radio Science

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 876-885

  Ekerete, K'Ufre Mfon E ^a   Hunt, Francis H ^a   Jeffery, Judith L ^b   Otung, Ifiok E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

gamma distribution; Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM); lognormal distribution; rainfall drop size distribution (DSD)

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DROPS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WIND;

BIMODAL DISTRIBUTION; DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

RAIN;

EID: 84945175200     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: 1944799X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015RS005674     Document Type: Article

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