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How Well Are We Measuring Snow: The NOAA/FAA/NCAR Winter Precipitation Test Bed
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NOAA, FAA, and NCAR work together at the NCAR Marshall Field Site to understand the relative accuracies of different instrumentation, gauges, and windshield configurations to measure snowfall and other solid precipitation. MotivAtion: AviAtion And CliMAte needs.Precipitation is one of the most important atmospheric variables for ecosystem research, hydrologic and weather forecasting, and climate monitoring.Despite its importance, accurate measurement of precipitation remains challenging.Measurement errors for solid precipitation, which are often ignored for automated systems, frequently range from 20% to 50% due to undercatch in windy conditions.Although measurement accuracy can be difficult to obtain and quantify for precipitation, it is extremely important for monitoring and assessing climate variability and change.Reducing measurement uncertainties is essential given the projected increases in precipitation over land over the next 100 yr (IPCC 2007).Obtaining climate-quality precipitation data not only requires overlap with existing measurements but also necessitates an ongoing need for intercomparisons and tests of various gauge windshield configurations.Undercatch of precipitation (Groisman and Legates 1994), resulting from wind-induced updrafts at the gauge orifice and wetting losses on the internal walls of the gauge, significantly affects the quality and accuracy of precipitation data for climate change studies, and is especially relevant for solid precipitation (Goodison et al. 1998).Recent collocated snow measurements at the Environment Canada (EC) Centre for Atmospheric Research Experiments (CARE) near Egbert, Ontario, Canada, highlight the large variability in the total snow water equivalent HOw wELL ARE wE MEASuRINg SNOw?
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- Rasmussen, R., Baker, B., Kochendorfer, J., Meyers, T., Landolt, S., Fischer, A. P., Black, J., Thériault, J. M., Kucera, P., Gochis, D., Smith, C., Nitu, R., Hall, M., Ikeda, K., & Gutmann, E.
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- 1520-0477
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