Drop Size Distribution Retrieval with Polarimetric Radar: Model and Application

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The Impact of Size Sorting on the Polarimetric Radar Variables (2012, background): “Because raindrop oblateness increases with increasing size (e.g., Pruppacher and Pitter 1971; Brandes et al. 2004a, 2005), ZDR in rain is a reflectivity-weighted measure of raindrop size in the sampling volume.”
The Impact of Raindrop Collisional Processes on the Polarimetric Radar Variables (2014, methodology): “Long-term observations of this sort exhibit quite a bit of scatter, which is represented by the dotted blue curves depicting the envelope of observations from Florida in Brandes et al. (2004).”
Uncertainty assessment of current size-resolved parameterizations for below-cloud particle scavenging by rain (2010, unknown): “In comparison with the exponential distribution, the gamma and lognormal distributions are usually better at representing the characteristics of observed raindrop size distributions at the small-raindrop end (e.g., Ulbrich, 1983; Willis, 1984; Feingold and Levin, 1986; Cerro et al., 1997; Mircea and”
Improving Parameterization of Rain Microphysics with Disdrometer and Radar Observations (2006, methodology): “…0.00760ZH 10 0.165ZDR 2 0.897ZDR 10 NT 2.085ZH 10 0.728ZDR 2 2.066ZDR 11 D0 0.171ZDR 3 0.725DR 2 1.479ZDR 0.717 12 6.084D0 2 29.85D0 34.64, 13 where ZH is in linear units (mm 6 m 3) and ZDR is in dB. Relations (9)–(13) have been verified for tropical rain in Florida (Brandes et al. 2003, 2004a,b).”