Automatic rain gauge

Details Automatic rain gauge Automatic rain gauge

1985-12-19

1987-05-19

Ruehl, Charles A.

Measuring and testing

Meteorology

Electric disturbance

73171, 7386331, G01W 114

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046657436

ABSTRACT:
An automatic rain gauge or pluviometer comprising a first receiver for receiving dry fallout; a second receiver for receiving wet fallout, provided with a first sensor able to emit a signal when a certain wet fallout sample volume has been collected; a closing device permitting the alternating closure of the two receivers as a function of a signal emitted by a precipitation detector; a measuring device located at the outlet of the second receiver and used for carrying out measurements of physicochemical quantities on the sample; a sampling device located at an outlet of the measuring device and used for arranging and keeping at a temperature below 0.degree. C. a fraction of each sample collected; and a checking system used for automatically controlling the aforementioned components as a function of the signals emitted by the sensors, including the first sensor and the precipitation detector and for managing the measurements performed on the sample.

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G. S. Raynor et al., "An Automatic Sequential Precipitation Sampler", Atmospheric Environment, vol. 13, No. 1, 1979, pp. 149-155.

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