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Data quality of Siphonic rain gauges
The standard TRITON has a rain gauge and we have two types of rain gaug
es;1) optical rain gauge (ORG115) and 2) Siphonic rain gauge (YOUNG50202).
Sometimes, additional rain gauge may have been added to TRITON moorings
for special purposes.
A maximum capacity of YOUNG50202 is 500 ml, which is equivalent to 50 m
m of rain. When water volume reaches maximum capacity, whole water is expelled t
hrough siphon tube. During siphon events, the instruments cannot measure correct
value, therefore, we replace the value into missing value and give a bad flag.
As a result the hourly and daily value of TRITON rain may be underestimated.
A sample of siphonic event is shoun in Fig. 1.
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Figure 1. Examples of siphonic rain gauge siphonic event. Time series of original accumlated rain (upper) and TRITON rain (lower). Pink lines indicate siphon events |
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