RT Journal Article
ID 049d249b24269b9d
A1 Levadnyi, Yurii V.
A1 Malyshenko, Yu.P. 
A1 Chistova, T.Ye. 
T1 DEVELOPMENT OF A RAIN GAUGE WITH ENHANCED ACCURACY AND HIGH FAST- ACTION WITH NUMERICAL INDICATION OF RAIN RATE TIME DEPENDENCE 
JF Telecommunications and Radio Engineering
JO TRE
YR 2017
FD 2017-07-03
VO 76
IS 3
SP 269
OP 275
K1 shuttle rain gauge
K1 rain intensity
AB Heavy rains considerably attenuate radio signals transmitted by modern millimeter wave high-speed communication lines. Therefore, this interference in the form of fast and deep changes of rain rates demands further investigations. Industrially manufactured rain gauges are not suitable for these investigations because of their inertia and insufficient precision of measurements. In view of the foregoing a new modification of the tipping-bucket rain gauge is suggested and made in this paper. As the result the precision has slightly improved but the fast-action improved substantially − more than by ten times (up to a few seconds in heavy rains) − owing to considerable diminishing the cuvette size and weight and also due to configuration which removed drop adhesion on its surface. The inclusion of an inexpensive microcontroller into the gauge composition also increased its precision and provided for a better display of rain rate time dependence values on a built-in monitor and interface to a computer for recording.
PB Begell House
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