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  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,813 Views
23 Pages

24 February 2023

The precipitation and raindrop size distribution (RSD) characteristics of the four seasons and different rain types were studied using a PARSIVEL2 raindrop disdrometer set in the southwest mountain areas of China from 2019 to 2021. The seasonal preci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,152 Views
19 Pages

Raindrop Size Distributions of North Indian Ocean Tropical Cyclones Observed at the Coastal and Inland Stations in South India

  • Balaji Kumar Seela,
  • Jayalakshmi Janapati,
  • Chirikandath Kalath Unnikrishnan,
  • Pay-Liam Lin,
  • Jui Le Loh,
  • Wei-Yu Chang,
  • Utpal Kumar,
  • K. Krishna Reddy,
  • Dong-In Lee and
  • Mannem Venkatrami Reddy

11 August 2021

The current study summarizes the raindrop size distributions (RSDs) characteristic of the North Indian Ocean (NIO) tropical cyclones (TCs) measured with ground-based disdrometers installed at the coastal (Thiruvananthapuram, 8.5335°N, 76.9047°E) and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
798 Views
18 Pages

16 July 2025

This study examines a Mei-Yu rainfall event using rain gauges (RG) and OTT Parsivel disdrometers to observe precipitation characteristics and raindrop size distributions (RSD), with comparisons made against Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) mode...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,446 Views
19 Pages

30 December 2022

Knowledge of the microphysical characteristics of precipitation plays a significant role in meteorology, hydrology, and natural hazards management, especially in the western Sichuan Basin (WSB), which is located east of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) in so...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,126 Views
18 Pages

Observed Response of the Raindrop Size Distribution to Changes in the Melting Layer

  • Patrick N. Gatlin,
  • Walter A. Petersen,
  • Kevin R. Knupp and
  • Lawrence D. Carey

18 August 2018

Vertical variability in the raindrop size distribution (RSD) can disrupt the basic assumption of a constant rain profile that is customarily parameterized in radar-based quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE) techniques. This study investigates...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,946 Views
18 Pages

12 July 2019

Tropical cyclones and meiyu-baiu fronts, as the two main synoptic systems over East Asia, bring heavy rain during summers, but their long-term and vertical raindrop size distribution (RSD) features over the midlatitude Japan Islands are limited. Rada...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,002 Views
20 Pages

27 December 2021

Raindrop size distribution (RSD) is a key parameter in the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model for rainfall estimation, with gamma distribution models commonly used to describe RSD under WRF microphysical parameterizations. The RSD model set...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,692 Views
21 Pages

Diurnal Cycle of Raindrops Size Distribution in a Valley of the Peruvian Central Andes

  • Elver Villalobos-Puma,
  • Daniel Martinez-Castro,
  • Jose Luis Flores-Rojas,
  • Miguel Saavedra-Huanca and
  • Yamina Silva-Vidal

28 December 2019

In the Central Andes of Peru, convective and stratiform rainfall occurs, frequently associated with convective storms. The raindrop size distributions (RSD), measured by a Parsivel-2 optical disdrometer, were characterized by the variation of their n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,449 Views
14 Pages

14 June 2023

X-band dual-polarization phased array radar (XPAR-D) possesses high resolution and plays a significant role in detecting meso- and micro-scale convective systems. However, the precipitation attenuation it endures necessitates an effective correction...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,615 Views
19 Pages

5 January 2021

The key factors, namely, the radar data quality, raindrop size distribution (RSD) variability, and the data integration method, which significantly affect radar-based quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE) are investigated using the RCWF (S-band...