Take Your Pick: Typical Forms Of Rain Gauge
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010Take Your Pick: Typical Forms Of Rain Gauge
There are four typical forms of rain gauge. If you want to know more about these four forms in order to check out which type of rain gauge you would need, according to your specific purposes, then read on.
1.) The Graduated Cylinder or Standard Rain Gauge – this type was developed as the dawn of the 20th century approaches. It consists of a graduated cylinder with a funnel attached to it, placed in a larger container. The container contains the water that could overflow from the graduated cylinder. In measuring its results, the graduated cylinder is measured and the excess water that overflowed will be placed onto another graduated cylinder and measured again.
The usual measurement in the cylinder is millimeters and each of the horizontal line in it can be 0.2 mm or 0.007 inch. The usual measure of a graduated cylinder is only up to 25 mm or .098 inch. Anything over 25 mm will then flow over onto the small hole on the graduated cylinder’s top. This rain gauge utilizes a metal pipe attached to the larger container for adjustment purposes, just to make sure that it is level. Then, a metal rod placed on the ground will be fit over the pipe.
