Rain gauges are ground-based instruments that provide in situ measurements of liquid precipitation amounts over a set time. There are multiple types of rain gauges that each collect and record data differently such as the tipping bucket rain gauge and weighing precipitation gauge. Rain gauges can be deployed in various locations due to their relatively small size and easy set-up and are typically colocated with other precipitation instruments such as disdrometers to provide more details about precipitation being collected such as precipitation rate and size distribution.
Instrument Details
- Gauge
- Earth Science > Atmosphere > Precipitation > Liquid PrecipitationEarth Science > Atmosphere > Precipitation > Precipitation AmountEarth Science > Atmosphere > Precipitation
- Land Surface
- Variable
- Point
- Variable
- https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/atot/14/6/1520-0426_1997_014_1513_anmfad_2_0_co_2.xml
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 Campaign Field Sites Stationary 60 Campaigns · 165 Instruments |  Integrated Precipitation and Hydrology Experiment 2014 Southern Appalachians, including portions of North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia 1 Deployment · 47 Data Products
 Altus Cumulus Electrification Study 2002 Florida Everglades 1 Deployment · 6 Data Products
 Mid-latitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment 2011 Central Oklahoma, Southern Plains 1 Deployment · 34 Data Products
OTTER Oregon Transect Ecosystem Research Project 1989—1991 western coniferous forest in Oregon 3 Deployments · 14 Data Products
 Iowa Flood Studies 2013 Iowa 1 Deployment · 33 Data Products
 Southern African Regional Science Initiative 1999—2001 Southern Africa 4 Deployments · 117 Data Products
 First International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP) Field Experiment 1987—1989 Central Kansas 2 Deployments · 101 Data Products
 Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study 1994—1996 Boreal forests of central Canada 2 Deployments · 303 Data Products
 Convection and Moisture Experiment 1993—2001 US Atlantic coast, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean 4 Deployments · 70 Data Products
 CalWater 2015 California, Sierra Nevada Range 1 Deployment · 0 Data Products
C3VP Canadian CloudSat/CALIPSO Validation Project 2006—2007 Ontario, Canada 1 Deployment · 6 Data Products
 GPM Cold Season Precipitation Experiment 2012 Ontario, Canada and northern portions of the United States (e.g., New York state, the New England area, etc.) 1 Deployment · 44 Data Products
 Olympic Mountains Experiment 2015—2016 Olympic Peninsula in U.S. Washington State 1 Deployment · 36 Data Products
 First International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) Regional Experiment 1986—1998 Central and Midwest United States, California Coast, Northwest Africa, Alaska 5 Deployments · 131 Data Products
SMEX Soil Moisture Experiment 2002—2005 Iowa, Oklahoma, Georgia, Alabama, Arizona, Sonora, Mexico 4 Deployments · 0 Data Products
SMAPVEX Soil Moisture Active Passive Validation Experiment 2008—2022 United States, Canada, Iowa, Maryland, Arizona, Massachusetts, Manitoba 5 Deployments · 25 Data Products
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 Campaign Permanent Land Sites Stationary 45 Campaigns · 73 Instruments |  Airborne Microwave Observatory of Subcanopy and Subsurface 2012—2015 North America 40 Deployments · 19 Data Products
SMEX Soil Moisture Experiment 2002—2005 Iowa, Oklahoma, Georgia, Alabama, Arizona, Sonora, Mexico 4 Deployments · 0 Data Products
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 R/V Oceanus 3 Campaigns · 12 Instruments | First International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) Regional Experiment 1986—1998 Central and Midwest United States, California Coast, Northwest Africa, Alaska 5 Deployments · 131 Data Products
ASTEX Atlantic Stratocumulus Transition Experiment 1992 Azores and Madeira islands 1 Deployment · 0 Data Products
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Malcolm Baldrige R/V Malcolm Baldrige 2 Campaigns · 9 Instruments | First International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) Regional Experiment 1986—1998 Central and Midwest United States, California Coast, Northwest Africa, Alaska 5 Deployments · 131 Data Products
ASTEX Atlantic Stratocumulus Transition Experiment 1992 Azores and Madeira islands 1 Deployment · 0 Data Products
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Moored Buoy Moored Buoy Stationary 2 Campaigns · 11 Instruments | SPURS Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study 2012—2017 Subtropical North Atlantic Ocean, Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean 2 Deployments · 41 Data Products
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Lady Amber R/V Lady Amber 1 Campaign · 7 Instruments | SPURS Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study 2012—2017 Subtropical North Atlantic Ocean, Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean 2 Deployments · 41 Data Products
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 R/V Roger Revelle 2 Campaigns · 16 Instruments | SPURS Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study 2012—2017 Subtropical North Atlantic Ocean, Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean 2 Deployments · 41 Data Products
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 R/V Ronald H. Brown 2 Campaigns · 41 Instruments |  Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment 2008 Southern Ocean 1 Deployment · 0 Data Products
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 RV Knorr 1 Campaign · 10 Instruments | SPURS Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study 2012—2017 Subtropical North Atlantic Ocean, Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean 2 Deployments · 41 Data Products
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