Identifying Individual Rain Events with a Dense Disdrometer Network

Figure 4

A plot showing the number of events as a function of MIT and for detector A for data taken between February 23, 2014, 16:04 UTC and April 19, 2014 12:43 UTC. Clearly, increasing either MIT or can substantially decrease the number of identified rain events. Note that the decrease in event count is not strictly monotonic with increasing MIT; even though merging “possible events” may decrease the total number of events, it is also possible that an increase in MIT will keep a potential event “alive” long enough to obtain the minimum number of minute observations with tips . Increasing while holding MIT fixed does monotonically decrease the number of observed events.