Variation of rain drop size distribution with rain rate at a few coastal and high altitude stations in southern peninsular India

Details Variation of rain drop size distribution with rain rate at a few coastal and high altitude stations in southern peninsular India Variation of rain drop size distribution with rain rate at a few coastal and high altitude stations in southern peninsular India

Feb 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010adspr..45..576h&link_type=abstract

Advances in Space Research, Volume 45, Issue 4, p. 576-586.

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Rain drop size distribution (DSD) was measured at four places in Southern India {Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Munnar and Sriharikota (SHAR)} using a Joss-Waldvogel (JW) impact type disdrometer. The data for each minute were corrected for dead time errors and rain rate was computed from the corrected data. The data for a whole month were then sorted according to rain rate (R) into several classes ranging from 0.1 to >100 mm/h. The average DSD in each class was computed, and the lognormal distribution function was fitted to the average. In all the cases, the function fitted the data very well. The fit parameters were found to have dependence on rain rate. The total number of drops (NT), the geometric mean diameter (Dg) and the standard geometric deviation (σ) were also computed from the fit parameters. The standard geometric deviation (σ) was found to be more or less constant with rain rate at all the sites and in all months. The other two parameters (NT and Dg) were found to vary exponentially with rain rate except in Munnar, a high altitude station. At Thiruvananthapuram, in most of the months, NT increased exponentially with rain rate up to some value of R, which was different in different months, and then remained more or less constant or decrease slightly. In all cases, the variation of NT and Dg was such that NTDg3 increased linearly with rain rate.

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