Comparing the Underlying Shape of the Rain Drop Size Distributions using the Full Spectra for Four Events from Four Climatically Different Locations

Thurai, Merhala

Comparing the Underlying Shape of the Rain Drop Size Distributions using the Full Spectra for Four Events from Four Climatically Different Locations

Merhala Thurai¹, Viswanathan N Bringi¹, Patrick Kennedy², David B Wolff³, David A Marks^4,5, Charanjit Singh Pabla^4,5, Matthew T. Wingo⁶, Patrick N Gatlin⁶, Wonbae Bang⁷ and Gyuwon Lee⁸, (1)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Wallops Flight Facility, Code 610W, Wallops Island, VA, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Wallops Flight Facility, Code 610W, Wallops Island, United States, (6)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (7)Kyungpook National University, Center for Atmospheric REmote sensing (CARE), Daegu, South Korea, (8)Kyungpook National University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences and Center for Atmospheric Remote Sensing, Daegu, South Korea