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Precipitation Measurement Techniques

Learn about various precipitation measurement techniques including rain gauge types, tipping bucket gauge, Canadian Nipher Gauge, and hot-plate snow gauge. Understand the challenges with wind effects and surface splash and explore methods for data processing.

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Precipitation Measurement Techniques

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  1. Lecture 6Precipitation (3) • Precipitation Measurement Techniques • Precipitation Data Processing

  2. Precipitation measurements techniques (Reading Chapter 5, Jones) 1. Rain gauge types (Alter, Nipher, ……) 2. Tipping bucket gauge and automatic recording 3. Problems with wind and surface splash 4. Snow gauges

  3. Canadian Nipher Gauge

  4. Wind effects on rain gauges

  5. Hot-plate snow gauge http://www.rap.ucar.edu/projects/marshall/Events/09Feb01/MVC-023F.html

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