Seasonal variation in rain gage catch

McGuinness, J. L.; Vaughan, Grant W.

doi:10.1029/wr005i005p01142

Water Resources Research

1969

DOI: 10.1029/wr005i005p01142

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Seasonal variation in rain gage catch

J. L. McGuinness¹,

Grant W. Vaughan²

Abstract: In northern Ohio 8‐inch standard rain gages consistently caught more precipitation in summer and less in winter than adjacent digital punch gages although average annual totals were almost identical. A similar seasonal pattern was found in a comparison of precipitation catch by weighing lysimeters and adjacent weighing type recording rain gages in Ohio and in a comparison of standard and recording rain gage catch in Nebraska. Some reasons for the differences in their implications are discussed.

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A recent brief report by McGuinness and Vaughan [1969] indicated a seasonal bias in precipitation catch among three types of rain gages generally used in hydrologic studies. Comparisons using United States Weather Bureau data for 15 stations in Ohio show that the average annual catches of digital recording and standard 8-inch nonrecording gages were equal, but that there was a pronounced seasonal trend in the ratio o.f digital to standard 8-inch gage catch on a. monthly basis.

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Increasing concern about the environment has resulted in a greater need for improved knowledge of precipitation for the solution of water resources problems. A specific example of such a need is the recent world‐wide research in development of hydrologic models for continuous synthesis of stream flow, the success of which will be ultimately limited by the reliability of the n‐unary input function, precipitation. Much of the precipitation research during the 1967–1970 period has been concerned with errors in measurement and development of better methods for measuring areal and temporal distribution of precipitation.

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Several types of rain gages were compared in the experimental basin Baye de Montreux (Laboratory for Hydraulic Research, Hydrology, and Glaciology, Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland) near Lake Leman. Ten years of data from the standard gage (Hellmann, 1.5 meters above ground), the ground level gage, the recording gage (pluviograph), and the monthly and yearly storage gages (totalizers) show some discrepancies in the precipitation catch. There is evidence of seasonal effects in the monthly percentage difference between the catch of the standard and that of other gages. The seasonal pattern is most obvious in the data for the yearly totalizer. In the winter the rain catch for the yearly totalizer is slightly higher than that for the standard gage. Conversely, in the summer the standard gage shows much more rain than the yearly totalizer (Figure 1). Table I erage catch per month in the summer season for all gages. The differences in catch of the rain gages generally used by hydrologists in Europe (standard, pluviograph, and totalizer) should be considered. On the average, over a 10-year period the pluviograph records 3% less precipitation in summer than the standard gage, and the totalizer shows 6.4% less than the standard gage and 10% less than the. ground level gage. There are also variations in total summer catch between the gages from year to year. The maximum difference in summer catch, which ranges between 8 and 14%, was found between the ground level gage and the totalizer ( Table 2). The differences in total summer catch between the standard gage and other gages in various years indicate that there must be one common cause (Figure 2.). In contrast to other gages, only the catch of the ground level gage is higher in summer than that of the 741

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