Statistical and Physical Descriptions of Raindrop Size Distributions in Equatorial Malaysia from Disdrometer Observations

Table 3

Statistics of DSD parameters derived from disdrometer data (January 1992–December 1994, 1 min rain rate data, total number of data = 61384).

Model	Parameter	Mean	SD	Min	Max	Kurtosis	Skewness
Gamma		5.39	2.04	1.02	14.95	5.06	1.27
		7.34	4.89	0.79	59.19	12.39	2.28
		6.76	4.56	−2.60	24.98	4.47	1.15
Normalized Gamma		3.52	0.50	0.81	4.87	4.56	−0.76
		1.74	0.59	0.67	4.95	5.59	1.33
	(GM)	6.14	4.53	−2.17	31.95	7.07	1.67
	(MLE)	7.95	5.13	−4.91	31.75	4.63	0.80