PROCEEDINGS OF HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING
Online ISSN : 1884-9172
Print ISSN : 0916-7374
ISSN-L : 0916-7374
Fractal Properties of Raindrop Distribution
Tosiyuki MORIYAMAKatsuhiko TANAKAMuneo HIRANO
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1994 Volume 38 Pages 801-804

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The pieces of dyed filter paper were exposed to rain, and both the size and position of the drops were determined. Lovejoy et al.(1990) reported that the spatial distribution for raindrops was fractal. Therefore this inhomogeneity of raindrops will lead to the correction for the standard theory in radar rainfall masurement. In this study, the fractal dimension of spaital distribution for raindrops are calculated, and are extended to the rainfall rate and the dropsize. This calculation gives the suggestion that the spatial distribution has the pink noise.

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