Posted by Daniel H on September 8, 2015, 10:04 pm, in reply to "Re: Rain Report"
Edited by board administrator September 9, 2015, 4:53 am
I also would like to add my bienvenidos to the new weather persons, thanks
for the rain!
About the sideways rain, my answer would be that the top of the gauge collects
the amount of rain per that area no matter what. And my answer is wrong.
Turns out that the currents of air around the top of the capture device
can affect the measurement.
http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/181263/rain-measurement-with-wind-blowing
So what to do? Repeat this .... "Oh well, it doesn't matter".
Edit - pdf link I couldn't get to work last evening.
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/1520-0426%281999%29016%3C0450%3AEOWIEO%3E2.0.CO%3B2
not pdf
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/1520-0426%281999%29016%3C0450%3AEOWIEO%3E2.0.CO%3B2?queryID=6%2F1009255
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