Whether in flood early-warning systems or in agriculture - rainfall measurements are of great importance. However, there is a lack of accurate data for many regions in the world due to the fact that ...

The National Weather Service (NWS) is the authority when it comes to weather measurement and reporting. To ensure accurate precipitation measurements, the NWS has established guidelines for measuring ...

Rainfall can be a tricky thing to measure. The amount of rain falling in a given area can change from minute to minute and might be completely different from the amount falling only a few miles away.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A combination of theory and measurement is used to develop a scattering-based method for quantitatively measuring rainfall over the ocean from ...

Question: What's 39.3 feet long, weighs 8,598 pounds and can see raindrops from space? Answer: NASA's new rain and snow satellite, which will launch from Japan in a month. The satellite is called the ...

Even in a wired world, some simple data is still surprisingly hard to get–like how much it rains. The basic rain gauge has been around for hundreds of years, and it’s still a standard tool used by ...

FARGO — Rain gauges come in all different shapes and sizes, but the StormTRACKER rain gauge has four parts: a funnel, a measuring tube, a 4-inch diameter overflow tube and this mounting bracket. Where ...

To ensure accurate precipitation measurements, the NWS has established guidelines for measuring and reporting snow and sleet totals and converting them into liquid equivalents. Measuring precipitation ...