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Comments On “Errors In The Estimate Of The Fractal Correlation Dimension Of Raindrop Spatial Distribution”, A. R. Jameson, Alexander Kostinski
Comments On “Errors In The Estimate Of The Fractal Correlation Dimension Of Raindrop Spatial Distribution”, A. R. Jameson, Alexander Kostinski
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What Is Raindrop Size Distribution?, A. R. Jameson, Alexander Kostinski
What Is Raindrop Size Distribution?, A. R. Jameson, Alexander Kostinski
Department of Physics Publications
It is commonly understood that the number of drops that one happens to measure as a function of diameter in some sample represents the drop size distribution. However, recent observations show that rain is “patchy” suggesting that such a seemingly “obvious” definition is incomplete. That is, rain consists of patches of elementary drop size distributions over a range of different scales. All measured drop size distributions, then, are statistical mixtures of these patches.
Moreover, it is shown that the interpretation of the measured distribution depends upon whether the rain is statistically homogeneous or not. It is argued and demonstrated using …