[Weather] dual drains -- was Re: conversion help

[Herbert E. Plett]

--- claude felizardo <cafelizardo at usa.net> wrote:
...
> So what about two separate sets of rain gauges?    One designed for 
> light rainfall, the other for down pours.  Then possibly subtract the 
> light rainfall measurements from the downpours?  I suppose you'll still 
> have the unknown amount sitting in each bucket...
> 
this is probably the only(?) compromise solution:
two parallel independent gauges.

the small bucket with the rate limiting counting will measure the total amount
(volume) of rainfall quite well but will introduce a delay (rate saturation) in
the rain graph. 
this graph can be (almost) corrected with the (coarse) measurements of the
large bucket. the remaining (initial) amount of water in the large bucket after
(before) the pour is of little impact in the corrected graph

I suppose....


 
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