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Rainfall distribution over dissected terrain in southwestern Wisconsin
Author(s) -
Sartz Richard S.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
water resources research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.863
H-Index - 217
eISSN - 1944-7973
pISSN - 0043-1397
DOI - 10.1029/wr002i004p00803
Subject(s) - ridge , precipitation , terrain , storm , hydrology (agriculture) , geology , experimental forest , elevation (ballistics) , environmental science , meteorology , geography , forestry , oceanography , cartography , geotechnical engineering , paleontology , geometry , mathematics
Rainfall studies on the Coulee Experimental Forest in southwestern Wisconsin have shown that the dissected terrain of the area has only a small effect on annual point rainfall. On a steep ridge, rain gages on the windward side caught 3% less rain than gages on the leeward side. The difference for the storms of 0.5‐inch precipitation or more was only 2%. A comparison of rainfall caught by ridge and valley gages indicated that ridge gages tended to catch more, but these differences were also small. Thus, rainfall on the experimental forest varies from place to place, but the differences probably result more from normal storm variation than from topographic effects per se.