On the correction of multiple minute sampling rainfall data of tipping bucket rainfall recorders

Rácz, Tibor (2022) On the correction of multiple minute sampling rainfall data of tipping bucket rainfall recorders. IDŐJÁRÁS / QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE HUNGARIAN METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE, 126 (2). pp. 285-295. ISSN 0324-6329

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Abstract

In the last decades of the 1900s, the tipping bucket rainfall gauges (TBG) were used to record the sub-daily rainfall data. In the first period of the rainfall data recording, as a result of the lack of efficient data storage and data transmission, the sampling period of the TBG devices was chosen in a magnitude of 10–20 minutes. Consequently, there are historical datasets characterized by several minutes long sampling periods. Since the turn of the 2000s, the data handling has been revolutionized; the sampling period has diminished to one minute. There is a systematic error of the TBG technique which has been investigated since the middle of the 1900s. Between 2004 and 2008, a comprehensive research was performed to determine the correction equation for several TBG devices. These results can be utilized for the short sampling period measurements (one minute sampling), but for longer sampling period data, further corrections are needed. In this paper, a supplementary correction is presented. On the base of the mathematical determination of the correction factor, simple estimation will be proposed to be able to execute the necessary correction. After the presentation of the correction factor, a general correction factor is proposed for larger geographical regions and wide time span of the measurements. The revision of the historical rainfall data recorded by TBG devices can be important in several issues, such as the re-evaluation of intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) curves, and in other fields.

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