A Recording Type Rain Gauge
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Updated on: September 25th, 2023
A recording type rain gauge
- produces a mass curve of rainfall
- records the cumulative rain
- is sometimes called integrating rain gauge or continuous rain gauge
- all the above.
Answer – d. all the above
A recording type rain gauge produces a mass curve of rainfall, records the cumulative rain and is sometimes called an integrating rain gauge or continuous rain gauge.
Solution
A recording type rain gauge has the following features:
- A permanent, automatic record of the rainfall is provided by the recording rain gauge.
- On graph paper, the total amount of rainfall is directly recorded.
- It records cumulative rainfall and hence is sometimes referred to as integrating rain gauge or continuous rain gauge.
- It gives a plot of cumulative rainfall vs time (mass curve)
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