Sentences with phrase «rain gauge»

The results closely matched those from rain gauges on the ground but provided much wider coverage.

For 2015, annual precipitation was just below average on balance for land - based rain gauges around the globe.

The lake acts somewhat like a huge rain gauge, so that lake level is a proxy for precipitation.

This makes heavy rainfall trends difficult to measure, because rain gauges are not always located where extreme rains occur.

* Still, several unofficial rain gauges measured impressive totals.

The scientists converted the rainfall measurements to daily rates, and cumulative weekly amounts, and checked the accuracy by comparing them with ground - based rain gauges.

NASA's satellite measurements reported rainfall rates from Harvey as high as 5.8 inches per hour (meteorologists define «heavy rain» as greater than 0.3 inches per hour), while the National Weather Service showed that a ground - based rain gauge in Nederland, Texas, reported 60.58 inches of rainfall, a new record.

The study, published today in Science, used 9 years of soil moisture data from NASA's venerable Aqua satellite along with data from a network of rain gauges.

The official rain gauge at Pensacola's airport measured an astonishing 5.68 inches in a single hour before it failed around 10 p.m. Tuesday.

Feng transformed well - established satellite detection methods into a new technique that he then applied to rainfall measured by radars and rain gauges for the past 35 years.

Usually, meteorologists determine the amount of rain within a certain period of time with the help of automatic rain gauges or by a rain radar.

In the two decades since, he has returned every year, traveling the countryside, visiting with friends, installing rain gauges, stopping for a bowl of ceebujen, the national dish of fish and rice.

So how much of Earth's surface is covered by rain gauges?

Using hourly rain gauge records and Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission 3B42 from 1998 to 2006, the authors present an analysis of the diurnal characteristics of summer rainfall over subtropical East Asia.

Spatial distributions of RM precipitation and precipitation time series were validated against daily rain gauge measurements and ISCCP satellite infrared cloud imagery.

The official rain gauge and weather radar both gave out, presumably from lightning strikes, so we might never know exactly how much rain fell Tuesday night.

Managers who handled flood precautions in London last week say traditional rain gauges worked better.

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Ocean salinity can act as a massive rain gauge.

Readings will range from simple rain gauges to sophisticated measurements of air pollution levels.

Such a wide network of real - time rain gauges could lead to improved weather forecasts, says Hagit Messer - Yaron, who led the study: «Out of better measurements, you can get better models.»

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Rain gauges sample an area less than 1 m2, phenomena producing precipitation often have scales of square kms, and most RCMs predict the area average for 100 km2.

Our analysis examines the heaviest downpours — the days where total precipitation exceeded the top 1 percent of all rain and snow days — at over 3,000 rain gauges distributed across the country over the period 1950 - 2014.

You should reset maximum and minimum thermometers and empty rain gauges only once each day.

In 2015, Climate Central analyzed rain gauge records since 1950 and found that 40 out of the 48 states in the continental United States have seen increased heavy downpours over that time period.

Unlike rain gauges, they can detect individual raindrops and measure their size.

The first rain gauges in the Sahel date from 1898 and they reveal that a major drought, accompanied by large - scale famine, in the 1910s, followed by wet conditions during the 1920s and 1930s reaching a peak with the very wet year of 1936.

Atmospheric and boundary state systems, including surface meteorological instrumentation, boundary layer cloud system, total sky imager, weighing bucket rain gauge, total precipitation sensor, eddy correlation flux measurement system, and disdrometer

In 2011, the Bureau had 774 temperature recording sites and nearly 6000 rain gauges operating across Australia.

Also: «We do have such things and they have validated the hypotheses, except for some weirdness in recent decades» — but we have had widespread rain gauges and thermometers for only, what, ca 10 decades, so «recent decades» must form a decent part of the record.

P.S. Can you explain why tree rings are rain gauges if you're studying Angkor Wat, but thermometers if you're studying Global Warming?

«The proxy records used in this study appear to contradict other studies that have used direct observations of precipitation from rain gauges... All else being equal, I would trust direct rainfall measurements over proxy records.»

They pinned more faith on a local system developed for them by the Institute of Hydrology in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, which bases its predictions on rainfall measurements collected electronically from a network of rain gauges.

Automatic rain gauges must be reset each day.

On Tuesday, a rain gauge near Highlands, Texas registered 51.88 inches of rainfall — breaking the record for most rainfall from a single storm in the entire continental US.

«If you were to try to measure global precipitation on the ground — I mean currently I can fit all of the rain gauges on the globe in the area of about a basketball court,» he said.

What's more, both rain gauges and ground - based radar have limited ranges, leaving vast stretches of ocean where hurricanes spend most of their existence unmeasured.

The next option is ground - based radar, which covers a wider swath of the weather than rain gauges, but less directly measures rain.