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BS 7843-1.1:1996

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Guide to the acquisition and management of meteorological precipitation data. Network design The user requirement for precipitation data
Available format(s)

Hardcopy , PDF

Superseded date

31-12-2011

Language(s)

English

Published date

15-07-1996

Committees responsible
Foreword
Introduction
Guide
1 Scope
2 References
3 Definitions
4 Identifying the users' needs for precipitation data
Annexes
A (informative) Errors in rainfall measurement
B (informative) Application of daily, monthly or longer
     precipitation totals
C (informative) Accuracies and implied daily gauge
     separation
D (informative) Application of sub-daily precipitation
     totals
E (informative) Accuracies and implied sub-daily gauge
     separation
F (informative) Bibliography
Tables
B.1 Daily, monthly or longer precipitation data requirements
C.1 Probability of achieving 10% RMS for three sample gauge
     networks on occasions of uniform rainfall
C.2 Probability of achieving 10% RMS for three sample gauge
     networks on occasions of non-uniform rainfall
C.3 Gauge separation for radar and gauge combined data for
     point rainfall, non-uniform field standard deviation of
     Er = 0.25
C.4 Gauge separation for radar and gauge combined data for
     areal rainfall, non-uniform field standard deviation of
     Er = 0.25
D.1 Sub-daily precipitation data requirements
Figures
A.1 Error terminology
A.2 Monthly differences in rainfall totals at Bala
A.3 Monthly differences in rainfall totals at Benson
A.4 Differences between two daily gauge readings, in
     millimetres
A.5 Differences between two daily gauge readings, in
     percentages
C.1 Point observations uniform rainfall
C.2 Point observations non-uniform rainfall
C.3 40 km x 40 km areal averages uniform rainfall
C.4 40 km x 40 km areal averages non-uniform rainfall
List of references

Gives procedures for measurement of meteorological precipitation and collection, quality control, archiving and exchange of data obtained from the measurement.

Committee
CPI/113
DevelopmentNote
Supersedes 92/05055 DC. (04/2005) Reviewed and confirmed by BSI, October 2008. (09/2008)
DocumentType
Standard
Pages
24
PublisherName
British Standards Institution
Status
Superseded
SupersededBy
Supersedes

BS 7843-2.2:1996 Guide to the acquisition and management of meteorological precipitation data. Field practices and data management Methods of observation and data tabulation
BS 7843-1.2:1996 Guide to the acquisition and management of meteorological precipitation data. Network design Network design and monitoring
BS 7843-2.4:1996 Guide to the acquisition and management of meteorological precipitation data. Field practices and data management Areal rainfall
BS 7843-2.1:1996 Guide to the acquisition and management of meteorological precipitation data. Field practices and data management Technical aspects in the field
BS 7843-2.3:1996 Guide to the acquisition and management of meteorological precipitation data. Field practices and data management Data management
BS 7843-3.1:1999 Guide to the acquisition and management of meteorological precipitation data. Specification for raingauges Storage raingauges - Storage raingauges

BS 7843-2.1:1996 Guide to the acquisition and management of meteorological precipitation data. Field practices and data management Technical aspects in the field
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