Abstract: A data sample of optical spectrometer measurements that were obtained in two tropical cyclones is analyzed. The resultant drop size distributions are normalized and their shape is found to exhibit some curvature-departure ...

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Abstract: The development of precipitation in the top of an isolated maritime cumulus tower is traced by four rapid penetrations with an instrumented aircraft between 400 and 1000 m below the visible top of the growing tower. The ...

Abstract: An error analysis technique is applied to determining the relation between the error in calculated meteoro-logical parameters and the observational grid spacing. For a given instrument type the practical lower limit of ...

Abstract: The probability of occurrence of extreme rainfall rates is reviewed. The drop-size distributions associated with a range of high rainfall rates are examined using data from tropical storms and hurricanes. Mean drop-size ...

Abstract: This study examines the aircraft observations and theoretical evolution of particles above, through, and below the melting layer in the stratiform region associated with a mesoscale convective system (MCS). The aircraft ...

Abstract: Drop-size measurements taken during hurricane research flight missions at altitudes at or below 3 km were used to derive a relationship between reflectivity factor and rainfall rate. The instrument used in this study is ...

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Abstract: The probability-matching method (PMM) was used to determine the relation between the distribution of equivalent reflectivity Ze measured by an airborne C-band radar and that for concurrently measured rain rate R by a ...