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Back to basics: Measuring rainfall at sea: Part 1 – In situ sensors
Author(s) -
Quartly G. D.,
Guymer T. H.,
Birch K. G.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
weather
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.467
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1477-8696
pISSN - 0043-1656
DOI - 10.1256/00431650260283488
Subject(s) - citation , oceanography , library science , physical oceanography , geology , computer science
Rainfall is an important climatic variable. Extremes in rainfall accumulations over land - either floods or droughts - have major societal implications and are obvious. At sea, the effects on human activity are less evident, apart from the inconvenience to deck passengers on cruise liners! However, improved knowledge of therainfall associated with weather systems approaching the UK from the Atlantic would be beneficial to weather forecasting, especially if assimilated into atmospheric models. There is an additional, more subtle, effect involving the ocean itself. At sea, the balance between precipitation and evaporation provides a criticalfeedback in climate change.

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