Measuring Hydrometeors Using a Precipitation Microphysical Characteristics Sensor: Sampling Effect of Different Bin Sizes on Drop Size Distribution Parameters

Table 4

Mean relative error of parameters in different rain-rate categories.

Rmm/h	Scheme
1.4	Interval 1	0.94	0.13	3.00	3.67	28.72	0.87	0.94
	Interval 2	1.37	1.22	2.98	5.21	40.52	2.69	2.69
	Interval 3	1.05	0.81	2.34	3.84	34.81	2.10	2.15
	Interval 4	1.10	0.09	2.43	3.27	28.79	1.14	0.99
7.28	Interval 1	1.03	0.31	3.61	5.27	7.96	1.98	0.11
	Interval 2	1.38	1.45	4.07	7.08	20.45	1.14	2.07
	Interval 3	1.06	0.71	3.19	5.22	14.13	0.41	0.96
	Interval 4	0.86	0.29	3.18	4.24	2.36	3.55	0.83
15.81	Interval 1	0.86	0.44	3.32	4.43	3.77	3.92	1.54
	Interval 2	1.19	0.88	4.01	6.43	11.26	0.83	0.73
	Interval 3	0.85	0.04	3.04	4.46	2.94	2.33	0.53
	Interval 4	0.54	1.08	2.87	3.14	9.35	4.81	2.37
58.58	Interval 1	0.34	1.63	2.75	1.88	6.70	7.59	3.10
	Interval 2	0.94	0.40	3.90	4.95	0.77	5.00	1.33
	Interval 3	0.49	1.69	2.89	2.14	6.87	8.48	3.40
	Interval 4	0.38	0.86	2.54	2.41	3.05	4.76	1.73