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Measurement of Rainfall Intensity Using a Weighting Tipping Bucket Raingauge  

Kim Hyun Chul (대구가톨릭대학교 환경과학과)
Lee Bu Yong (대구가톨릭대학교 환경과학과)
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Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology / v.6, no.4, 2004 , pp. 211-217 More about this Journal
Abstract
The instrument used in this study consists of a lkg capacity loadcell and a Imm tipping bucket rain gauge. There are two signals: one is the weight of the water in the tipping bucket and the other is the pulse from the reversing mechanism of the tipping bucket. The loadcell measures the weight of water with a 0.0lmm resolution up to 1mm rainfall and the bucket reverses beyond 1mm. From this point, a pulse signal generates and the loadcell starts measuring the weight again. A field test was carried out with the range of rainfall intensity from 42mm/h to 250mm/h. The result shows an error range from -2.2% to + 2.6% in 12 measurement cases with a rainfall of l00mm or more. This result satisfies the WMO recommendation for rainfall intensity instrumentation which allows a 5% range. In a field experiment during 17 to 19 August, 2004, more than 100mm/h rainfall intensity was observed by this instrument, confirming that our instrument has a sufficient capacity of rainfall intensity measurement under extreme conditions like Jangma (Bai-u season). Compared with existing commercial models which employ a water drop measurement method, our method can give a practical solution for diagnostic check of remote rain gauges using two independent signals.
Keywords
Instrument; Rainfall; Rain gauge; Tipping bucket; Loadcell;
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