Clelia Caracciolo

TL;DR: The DEVEX experiment as discussed by the authors was conducted to compare measurements of natural rain made with three different types of disdrometers collocated at the Iowa City Municipal Airport in Iowa City, Iowa in the Midwestern United States.

TL;DR: In this article, a new method of moments was developed and tested to determine the three gamma DSD parameters, which are less sensitive to the underestimation of small drops in the JW disdrometer, and validated by comparing the observed rainfall rates with the computed ones from the fitted distribution, using two classical expressions for the hydrometeor terminal velocity.

TL;DR: In this article, a large number of different rain events were collected: they underwent microphysical analysis by computing the Z-R relationships, observing the average DSDs and DSD parameters, fitting the real distribution for different rainfall rate categories and applying convective (C) -stratiform (S) discrimination algorithms.

TL;DR: In this paper, the performances of two couples of disdrometers based on different measuring principles are compared: a classical Joss-Waldvogel dis-rometer and a recently developed device, called the Pludix tested in Ferrara, Italy, and the two-dimensional video dis-remeter (2DVD) tested in Cabauw, The Netherlands.

TL;DR: In this paper, an experimental site was set up in the Chianti hills (central Italy) where Tipping-bucket rain gauges and the Joss-Waldvogel disdrometers were used.