Open AccessPRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS WITH VARIOUS PRECIPITATION GAUGE INSTALLATIONS
Author(s) -
John Sandsborg
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
hydrology research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.665
H-Index - 48
eISSN - 2224-7955
pISSN - 1998-9563
DOI - 10.2166/nh.1972.0006
Subject(s) - snow , precipitation , gauge (firearms) , environmental science , extrapolation , rain gauge , atmospheric sciences , meteorology , climatology , geology , geography , mathematics , statistics , archaeology
An account is given of precipitation measurements taken with various precipitation gauge installations at Ultuna, Sweden during 1957-1960. A new gauge constructed to measure small spatial variations in rainfall is described and tested. The difficulty in measuring both rain and snow with the same elevated gauge is demonstrated. An extrapolation procedure is used in an attempt to estimate the snowfall at the snow surface. The great loss in the catch of snow when using elevated gauges (40-50 % at 1.5 m over the ground surface) indicates that this method is very unsatisfactory for measuring solid precipitation.
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