Identifying Individual Rain Events with a Dense Disdrometer Network

Figure 9

The figure shows the number of events as a function of MIT and for A and B and associated with the data in the subset depicted in Figure 6. For simplicity, this plot defines a rainy minute as any one-minute spectra that contained at least 128 drops of at least 1 mm diameter. Note that despite the fact that these detectors disagreed on the number of events in this interval when simulating a tipping-bucket (see Figure 5), there is great agreement in this parameter space. (The agreement between the two detector event identification is especially striking when MIT and are not close to the instrument’s resolution).

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