What is measured by a pluviometer?
Rain gauge it. When measurements are taken, the height of the water in the small graduated cylinder is measured, and the excess overflow in the large container is carefully poured into another graduated cylinder and measured to give the total rainfall. Sometimes a cone meter is used to prevent leakage that can result in alteration of the data. In locations using the metric system, the cylinder is usually marked in mm and will measure up to of rainfall. Each horizontal line on the cylinder is . In areas using Imperial units each horizontal line represents 0.01 inch. The pluviometer of intensities (or
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