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2DVD Data Revisited: Multifractal Insights into Cuts of the Spatiotemporal Rainfall Process

Gires, Auguste
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Tchiguirinskaia, Ioulia
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Schertzer, Daniel
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2015
Journal Of Hydrometeorology

Data collected during four heavy rainfall events that occurred in Ardeche (France) with the help of a 2D video disdrometer (2DVD) are used to investigate the structure of the raindrop distribution in both space and time. A first type of analysis is based on the reconstruction of 36-m-height vertical rainfall columns above the measuring device. This reconstruction is obtained with the help of a ballistic hypothesis applied to 1-ms time step series. The corresponding snapshots are analyzed with the help of universal multifractals. For comparison, a similar analysis is performed on the time series with 1-ms time steps, as well as on time series of accumulation maps of N consecutive recorded drops (therefore with variable time steps). It turns out that the drop distribution exhibits a good scaling behavior in the range 0.5-36 m during the heaviest portion of the events, confirming the lack of empirical evidence of the widely used homogenous assumption for drop distribution. For smaller scales, drop positions seem to be homogeneously distributed. The notion of multifractal singularity is well illustrated by the very high-resolution time series.

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DOI
10.1175/Jhm-D-14-0127.1
Web of Science ID

WOS:000352735100006

Author(s)
Gires, Auguste
Tchiguirinskaia, Ioulia
Schertzer, Daniel
Berne, Alexis  
Date Issued

2015

Publisher

American Meteorological Society

Published in
Journal Of Hydrometeorology
Volume

16

Issue

2

Start page

548

End page

562

Subjects

Rainfall

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Statistical techniques

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Microscale processes

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variability

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REVIEWED

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May 29, 2015
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