![]() ![]() When rainfall is long and heavy, it can lead to rapid flooding, which is dangerous for the nearby population. Sometimes you are ready with appropriate clothing and sometimes not! Rainfall is sometimes long and light, sometimes short and heavy, and sometimes long and heavy. Rainfall is one of the most commonly shared experiences on Earth, and I will bet you regularly witness it. In this paper, you will learn the functioning of three rainfall measurement devices providing cumulative rainfall depth (tipping bucket rain gauges), size and velocity of falling drops (disdrometers), or rainfall maps (weather radars). It turns out to be pretty tricky because rainfall is extremely variable in time and space. A much needed step to understand better this natural phenomenon is to properly measure it. I am pretty sure that you regularly experience rainfall and sometimes get pretty wet since you do not have the appropriate clothing! Rainfall is both a needed resource, since it fills rivers and provides fresh water, and a potential threat with heavy rainfall leading to (possibly rapid) flooding.
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