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We report on measurements of drop size distributions (DSD) using collocated instruments (a Droplet Measurement Technologies, Inc., Meteorological Particle Spectrometer and a 2D-video disdrometer) from two locations with different rainfall climates (Greeley, Colorado, and Huntsville, Alabama, with measurements from the latter that include the outer rainbands of Hurricane Irma). The combination of the two instruments gives what we term as the “full” DSD spectra, the shape of which generally cannot be represented by the standard gamma model, but instead requires the additional flexibility of the generalized gamma model, which includes two shape parameters ( μ  and  c ). The double-moment normalization of DSDs using the third and fourth moments is used to arrive at the intrinsic shapes of the DSD with two shape parameters that are shown to capture simultaneously the drizzle mode as well as the precipitation mode, together with a “plateau” region between the two. The estimation of  μ  and  c  is done with a global search using nonlinear least squares, and the error residuals are examined to check the sensitivity of the parameters to a preselected, allowed tolerance around the minimum error in the  μ ,  c  plane. This leads to a range of plausible fits for a given normalized DSD mainly governed by the  c  parameter. The stability or invariance of the shape of the normalized DSDs from the two sites is examined, and on average the shapes are similar with some variability at the large normalized diameter end that is explained by the aforementioned range of plausible fits. Heuristic goodness-of-fit methods are described that demonstrate that the generalized gamma model outperforms the standard gamma model with only one shape parameter ( μ ).

Application of the Generalized Gamma Model to Represent the Full Rain Drop Size Distribution Spectra