REMOTE SENSING OF RAINFALL PARAMETERS BY LASER SCINTILLATION CORRELATION--EXPERIMENT AND ANALYSIS

Remote sensing of rainfall parameters-rainfall rate and size distribution-by raindrop-induced laser bcam scintillation is a new kind of precipitation measurement technique.This paper presented the primary field experiment results based on the theory and numerical simulations by Wu and Lü(1984,1985) and Lüand Wu (1984).Rainfall rate and size distribution were deduced from observations of laser beam scintillation and compared with those of the filter-paper sampling method.Qualitative analysis of the experiment error was also given here.All the work showed that the theory is applicable,and under proper experiment conditions,remote sensing of rainfall parameters by laser scintillation correlation is an advanced and accurate technique.