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This work presents an assessment of Thies Clima laser disdrometer performance with a focus on the relationship between wind and the accuracy of the disdrometer output products. The 10-min average rainfall rate and total rainfall accumulation obtained by the disdrometer are systematically compared with the collocated measures of a standard tipping bucket rain gauge, the FAK010AA sensor, in terms of familiar statistical scores. A total of 42 rainy events, collected in a mountainous site of Southern Italy (Montevergine observatory), are used to support our analysis. The results show that the introduction of a new adaptive filtering in the disdrometric data processing can reduce the impact of sampling errors due to strong winds and heavy rain conditions. From a quantitative perspective, the novel filtering procedure improves by 8% the precipitation estimates with respect to the standard approach widely used in the literature. A deeper examination revealed that the signature of wind speed on raw velocity-diameter spectrographs gradually emerges with the rise of wind strength, thus causing a progressive increase of the wrongly allocated hydrometeors (which reaches 70% for wind speed greater than 8 m s\u22121). With the aid of reference rain-gauge rainfall data, we designed a second simple methodology that makes use of a correction factor to mitigate the wind-induced bias in disdrometric rainfall estimates. The resulting correction factor could be applied as an alternative to the adaptive filtering suggested by this study and may be of practical use when dealing with disdrometric data processing.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13153028","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,2]],"date-time":"2021-08-02T08:44:11Z","timestamp":1627893851000},"page":"3028","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Influence of Wind-Induced Effects on Laser Disdrometer Measurements: Analysis and Compensation Strategies"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8279-9922","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Vincenzo","family":"Capozzi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Science and Technology, University of Naples Parthenope, 80143 Napoli, Italy"},{"name":"National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (CNR-ISAC), 00133 Rome, Italy"}]},{"given":"Clizia","family":"Annella","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Science and Technology, University of Naples Parthenope, 80143 Napoli, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0099-0393","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mario","family":"Montopoli","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (CNR-ISAC), 00133 Rome, Italy"},{"name":"Center of Excellence for Telesensing of Environment and Model Prediction of Severe Events, University of L\u2019Aquila, 67100 L\u2019Aquila, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9500-5004","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Elisa","family":"Adirosi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (CNR-ISAC), 00133 Rome, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1769-2456","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Giannetta","family":"Fusco","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Science and Technology, University of Naples Parthenope, 80143 Napoli, Italy"}]},{"given":"Giorgio","family":"Budillon","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Science and Technology, University of Naples Parthenope, 80143 Napoli, Italy"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"21","DOI":"10.3141\/1741-04","article-title":"Road weather information system in Finland","volume":"1741","author":"Toivonen","year":"2001","journal-title":"Transp. 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