BS 7843-2.1:1996
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Guide to the acquisition and management of meteorological precipitation data. Field practices and data management Technical aspects in the field
Hardcopy , PDF
12-31-2011
English
09-15-1996
Committees responsible
Foreword
Guide
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Definitions
4 Raingauge instrumentation
5 Siting and exposure criteria
6 Maintenance
7 Raingauge site records
8 Measurement of solid precipitation using
raingauges
Annexes
A (informative) Errors in rainfall measurement
B (informative) Comparisons between collocated
raingauges
C (informative) Examples of tipping bucket malfunction
D (informative) Examples of tilting siphon raingauge
(TSR) malfunctions
Table
B.1 Tolerance levels for daily raingauges
Figures
1 Patterns of manually read standard raingauges
2 Standard patterns of rain measures
3 Tipping bucket raingauge
4 Tilting siphon rain recorder (TSR)
5 Diagram for assessing the exposure of a raingauge
6 Turf wall construction
7 Ground level raingauge installation
A.1 Error terminology
A.2 Monthly differences in rainfall totals at Bala
A.3 Monthly differences in rainfall totals at Benson
A.4 Differences between two daily raingauge readings
in mm
A.5 Differences between two daily raingauge readings,
in percentages
D.1 Examples of instrumental errors on tilting siphon
raingauge charts
List of references
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