Showing papers by "Animesh Maitra published in 2004"
01 Jan 2004
TL;DR: In this paper, the size distribution during the growing phase of a rain event is found biased towards larger drops compared to that during the later phase of the event for identical rain rates.
Abstract: Measurements of rain drop size distributions (DSD) at Kolkata (22°34' N, 88°29' E), India, have been carried out using a Josstype disdrometer since June 2004. The size distribution during the growing phase of a rain event is found biased towards larger drops compared to that during the later phase of the event for identical rain rates. The three-parameter distributions, lognormal and gamma, are fitted to the disdrometer data to model DSD for a number of rain events. The same data are also used to find integral rainfall parameters (IRP), such as liquid water content, radar reflectivity factor and specific attenuation which are compared to that obtained with the modelled DSD and the Marshall-Palmer distribution.
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