AOSC 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Snow Gauge, Rain Gauge
10 Apr 2018
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Measurement accuracy is difficult to quantify for precipitation. It is extremely important for monitoring and assessing climate variability and change. Reducing measurement uncertainties is essential give the projected increase in precipitation over land over the next 100 yrs. Obtaining climate quality precipitation data not only requires overlap with existing measurements but also necessitates an ongoing need for inter-comparisons and test of various gauge windshield configurations. Snowfall: depth of new snow that fell in the last 6 to 24 hours. Snow water equivalent of snowfall: water equivalent of the new snowfall. Total snow depth: total amount of all snow on the ground, old and new. Snow water equivalent of total snow depth. Specific satellites designed to assess clouds, atmospheric. Tipping bucket rain gauge measures: rain rate. Tropical rain measuring mission for estimating rainfall: based on space born radar. Extremely large body of air whose temperature and humidity are similar horizontally and vertically.
