IAS Institute of Atmospheric Sciences

at SDSM&T South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Rapid City, South Dakota USA

Selected recent published and presented works of Paul L. Smith

Smith, P.L. and Kliche, D.V., 2005. The bias in moment estimators for parameters of drop-size distribution functions: sampling from exponential distributions. J. Appl. Meteor., 44, 1195-1205.

Smith, P.L. and Kliche, D.V., 2003. The bias in moment estimators for parameters of drop size distribution functions, 31st Conference on Radar Meteorology, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Seattle, WA., 47-50.

Smith, P.L., 2003. Raindrop size distributions: Exponential or gamma - does the difference matter? J. Appl. Meteorol., 42, 1031-1034.

Smith, P.L., Liu, Z. and Joss, J., 1993. A study of sampling-variability effects in raindrop-size observations. J. Appl. Meteor., 32(7): 1259-1269.

Smith, P.L., 1982. On the graphical presentation of raindrop size data. Atmosphere-Ocean., 20(1): 4-16.

Whiton, R.C., Smith, P.L., Bigler, S.G., Wilk, K.E. and Harbuck, A.C., 1998. History of operational use of weather radar by U.S. Weather Services. Part II: Development of operational Doppler weather radars. Weather and Forecasting, 13: 244-252.

Smith, P.L., Detwiler, A.G., Musil, D.J. and Ramachandran, R., 1999. Observations of mixed-phase precipitation within a CaPE thunderstorm. J. Appl. Meteor., 38(2): 145-155.

French, J.R., Helsdon, J.H., Detwiler, A.G. and Smith , P.L., 1996. Microphysical and electrical evolution of a Florida thunderstorm. Part I: Observations. J. Geophys. Res., 101(D14): 18961-18977.

Smith, P.l. and Waldvogel, A., 1989. On determinations of maximum hailstone sizes from hailpad observations. J. Appl. Meteor., 28: 71-76.

Smith, P.L.J., Myers, C.G. and Orville, H.D., 1975. Radar reflectivity factor calculations in numerical cloud models using bulk parameterization of precipitation. J. Appl. Meteor., 14(6): 1156-1165.