edu.ucar.opensky::articles:24555 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-24T23:09:05.146907 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7988bfp https://doi.org/10.5067/GPM/PR/TRMM/2A/06 https Related Dataset #1 GPM PR on TRMM Reflectivity, Precipitation Characteristics and Rate, at Surface and Profile L2 1.5 hours V06 Microphysical features of typhoon and non-typhoon rainfall observed in Taiwan, an island in the northwestern Pacific 2021-07-09T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7988bfp https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-4025-2021 Janapati, J. author Seela, B. K. author Lin, P. author Lee, M. author Joseph, Everette author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher Information about the raindrop size distribution (RSD) is vital for comprehending the precipitation microphysics, improving the rainfall estimation algorithms, and appraising the rainfall erosivity. Previous research has revealed that the RSD exhibits diversity with geographical location and weather type, which leads to the assessment of the region and weather-specific RSDs. Based on long-term (2004 to 2016) disdrometer measurements in northern Taiwan, this study attempts to demonstrate the RSD aspects of summer seasons that were bifurcated into two weather conditions, namely typhoon (TY) and non-typhoon (NTY) rainfall. The results show a higher concentration of small drops and a lower concentration of large-sized drops in TY compared to NTY rainfall, and this behavior persisted even after characterizing the RSDs into different rainfall rate classes. RSDs expressed in gamma parameters show higher mass-weighted mean diameter (D-m) and lower normalized intercept parameter (N-w) values in NTY than TY rainfall. Moreover, sorting these two weather conditions (TY and NTY rainfall) into stratiform and convective regimes revealed a larger D-m in NTY than in TY rainfall. The RSD empirical relations used in the valuation of rainfall rate (Z-R, D-m-R, and N-w-R) and rainfall kinetic energy (KE-R and KE-D-m) were enumerated for TY and NTY rainfall, and they exhibited profound diversity between these two weather conditions. Attributions of RSD variability between the TY and NTY rain-fall to the thermodynamical and microphysical processes are elucidated with the aid of reanalysis, remote sensing, and ground-based data sets. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Copyright author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. None eng geoscientificInformation