Effect of disdrometer type on rain drop size distribution characterisation: a new dataset for south-eastern Australia

Guyot, Adrien; Pudashine, Jayaram; Protat, Alain; Uijlenhoet, Remko; Pauwels, Valentijn R. N.; Seed, Alan; Walker, Jeffrey P.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-4737-2019

Articles | Volume 23, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-4737-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-4737-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 23, issue 11

Research article

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19 Nov 2019

Research article |

| 19 Nov 2019

Effect of disdrometer type on rain drop size distribution characterisation: a new dataset for south-eastern Australia

Adrien Guyot, Jayaram Pudashine, Alain Protat, Remko Uijlenhoet, Valentijn R. N. Pauwels, Alan Seed, and Jeffrey P. Walker

Data sets

Laser Disdrometer Particle Size and Velocities Distributions Raw data (2014-2017) for Melbourne, Australia A. Guyot, J. Pudashine, A. Protat, R. Uijlenhoet, V. R. N. Pauwels, A. Seed, and J. P. Walker https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3234218

PyDSD v1.0 J. Hardin and N. Guy https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.9991

Short summary

We characterised for the first time the rainfall microphysics for Southern Hemisphere temperate latitudes. Co-located instruments were deployed to provide information on the sampling effect and spatio-temporal variabilities at micro scales. Substantial differences were found across the instruments, increasing with increasing values of the rain rate. Specific relations for reflectivity–rainfall are presented together with related uncertainties for drizzle and stratiform and convective rainfall.