Open AccessOn the measurement of atmospheric gamma drop‐size distributions
Author(s) -
Brawn Dan,
Upton Graham
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
atmospheric science letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.951
H-Index - 45
ISSN - 1530-261X
DOI - 10.1002/asl.198
Subject(s) - disdrometer , meteorology , drop (telecommunication) , environmental science , mathematics , atmospheric sciences , statistical physics , statistics , physics , computer science , telecommunications , rain gauge , precipitation
Abstract We consider concurrent data from two makes of laser disdrometer, fitting gamma distributions to each minute's data. We show that, as has been suggested elsewhere, there does appear to be a relationship between the shape and slope parameters. However, we present a revised formulation of the relationship and demonstrate that the relation appears to vary with the type of disdrometer used. Copyright © 2008 Royal Meteorological Society