Adjustment to rainfall measurement undercatch with a tipping-bucket rain gauge using ground-level manual gauges

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Mekonnen, G. B. - Matula, S. - Doležal, F. - Fišák, Jaroslav
Adjustment to rainfall measurement undercatch with a tipping-bucket rain gauge using ground-level manual gauges.
Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics. Roč. 127, č. 3 (2015), s. 241-256. ISSN 0177-7971. E-ISSN 1436-5065
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378289
Klíčová slova: precipitation measurements * prediction * accuracy * climate * errors
Kód oboru RIV: DG - Vědy o atmosféře, meteorologie
Impakt faktor: 1.172, rok: 2015
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00703-014-0355-z#page-1

Wind-caused undercatch is an important factor among types of systematic errors in point measurements of rainfall. The daily amount of rainfall measured by a MR3H tipping-bucket rain gauge (TBR-MR3H), which is elevated above the ground surface, was considerably underestimated on average by 46 % when compared with the corresponding measurements done by a pair of ground-level manual gauges (M-Rs). The undercatch was also confirmed by the measurements using a set of microlysimeters (MLs). The daily rainfall totals measured by the manual rain gauge were used as a reference in adjusting the rainfall undercatch with the tipping-bucket rain gauge. A simplified equation, developed based on the relationship between logarithmic wind profile and its effect on the catch ratio (CR) of the two gauges, was used to calculate the correction factor on a daily basis. The effect of wind speed depends on the intensity of rainfall. Parameters were optimized, and the proposed equation was validated. The calculated and measured daily rainfall amounts were in good agreement with a correlation coefficient of 0.99, and overall deviation of 0.04.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0239374