@inproceedings{56db57502f874c5a8dfa648608ce3d79,
title = "Characterization of rain microphysics based on disdrometer and Polarimetric radar observations",
abstract = "Characterization of rain microphysics requires information on raindrop size distributions (DSDs). DSD measurements and retrievals, however, contain errors. In this paper, data from side-by-side disdrometer comparisons are presented to provide information that is not possible from single disdrometer measurements alone, allowing error effects to be quantified and a rain DSD model for radar retrieval to be improved. We also propose methods to mitigate sampling errors by filtering with sorting and averaging and by fitting to a Gamma DSD model with truncation and extrapolation. The Constrained-Gamma DSD model has thus been refined for the Southern Great Plains region of the United States.",
keywords = "Disdrometer, Drop size distribution, Fitting, Radar retrieval, Sampling error",
author = "Qing Cao and Guifu Zhang and Edward Brandes and Kyoko Ikeda and Terry Schuur and Alexander Ryzhkov",
year = "2006",
doi = "10.1109/IGARSS.2006.139",
language = "English",
isbn = "0780395107",
series = "International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "523--528",
booktitle = "2006 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS",
address = "United States",
note = "2006 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2006 ; Conference date: 31-07-2006 Through 04-08-2006",
}