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Rainfall Measurements during Summer 2020 with the Optical Precipitation Gage

Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics volume 34, pages 278–281 (2021)Cite this article

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Rainfall measurements with an OPTIOS optical precipitation gage and a standard Tretyakov O-1 gage for three summer months of 2020 are compared; a good agreement between them is shown. The comparison between the OPTIOS measurements with measurements with a similar optical rain gage mounted at a distance of 3 km and with the related data from the Tomsk weather station of Rosgydromet located at a distance of 6 km shows significant spatial variations in the precipitation parameters. The possibility of using OPTIOS both as an automated gage within a weather station and as a component of a precipitation gage network is shown.

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The study was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.

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  1. Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 634055, Tomsk, Russia

    V. V. Kalchikhin, A. A. Kobzev, A. A. Tikhomirov & D. E. Filatov

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Kalchikhin, V.V., Kobzev, A.A., Tikhomirov, A.A. et al. Rainfall Measurements during Summer 2020 with the Optical Precipitation Gage. Atmos Ocean Opt 34, 278–281 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1024856021030052

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