Quantitative measurement, estimation, and prediction of precipitation remains one of the
grand challenges in the hydrological and atmospheric sciences with far‐reaching …

A comprehensive general framework for the description and analysis of the microstructure of
rainfall is presented. The microstructure of rainfall is parameterized in terms of the raindrop …

Publisher Summary This chapter provides an overview of the organization and structure of
precipitating cloud systems. The emphasis is on precipitating cloud systems, which …

The evolution of raindrops from cloud droplets is presented on the theoretical basis of cloud
microphysical principles in terms of the spectral balance equation. Also, interconnections of …

Several environmental processes, both occurring in the atmosphere and at the land surface,
depend fundamentally on the structure of rainfall at the scale of individual raindrops. From a …

The question of the connections between raindrop-size distributions (RDSDS) and radar
reflectivity–rainfall rate Z–R relationships is explored from the combined approach of rain …

Collision-induced breakup of raindrops is assumed to be the main factor controlling the
temporal evolution of raindrop size distributions (RSDs). Owing to this mechanism, fragment …

The intrinsic small spatial scales and low-reflectivity structure of oceanic warm precipitating
clouds suggest that millimeter spaceborne radars are best suited to providing quantitative …

A unique relation between raindrop size and fall speed vt (D) is assumed throughout
atmospheric science. Yet, our speed versus size measurements of millions of drops during …

A study of the evolution of raindrop spectra (raindrop size distribution, DSD) between cloud
base and the ground surface was conducted using a column model of stochastic …