On the measurement of atmospheric gamma drop-size distributions

Abstract

We consider concurrent data from two makes of laser disdrometer, fitting gamma distributions to each minute's data. We show that, as has been suggested elsewhere, there does appear to be a relationship between the shape and slope parameters. However, we present a revised formulation of the relationship and demonstrate that the relation appears to vary with the type of disdrometer used. Copyright © 2008 Royal Meteorological Society.