“…1). Such a configuration could be of interest to model a rain column, which is usually considered as made by three regions [7]. More in detail, experiments consider three different test cases, i.e., a profile consisting of very sparse and very dense layers in alternated succession, Q R = {0.05, 0.35, 0.05}, a sparse profile, Q R = {0.05, 0.15, 0.05}, and a dense profile, The PSO parameters values are given in Table I and have been chosen following the guidelines provided in [12].…”