A General Formulation for Raindrop Size Distribution
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- 1 December 1994
- journal article
- Published by American Meteorological Society in Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
- Vol. 33 (12) , 1494-1502
- https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0450(1994)033<1494:agffrs>2.0.co;2
Abstract
A general phenomenological formulation for drop size distribution (DSD), written down as a scaling law, is proposed. It accounts for all previous fitted DSDs. As a main implication of the expression proposed, the integral rainfall variables are related by power functions and agree with experimental evidence. Additional consequences are also analyzed. From this formulation there follows a general methodology for scaling all data in a unique plot, leading to more robust fits of the DSD. An illustrative example on real data is provided. Abstract A general phenomenological formulation for drop size distribution (DSD), written down as a scaling law, is proposed. It accounts for all previous fitted DSDs. As a main implication of the expression proposed, the integral rainfall variables are related by power functions and agree with experimental evidence. Additional consequences are also analyzed. From this formulation there follows a general methodology for scaling all data in a unique plot, leading to more robust fits of the DSD. An illustrative example on real data is provided.Keywords
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