Whether in flood early-warning systems or in agriculture - rainfall measurements are of great importance. However, there is a lack of accurate data for many regions in the world due to the fact that ...

A team of researchers from Tianjin University in China has unveiled a breakthrough method that transforms everyday surveillance cameras into high-precision rainfall sensors. The study features a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A combination of theory and measurement is used to develop a scattering-based method for quantitatively measuring rainfall over the ocean from ...

Today's story comes from a long-time viewer. He set up two rain gauges side-by-side but measured a different amount of rain in each. He wanted to know which one is accurate and how to choose a good ...

Even in a wired world, some simple data is still surprisingly hard to get–like how much it rains. The basic rain gauge has been around for hundreds of years, and it’s still a standard tool used by ...

You step outside, feel a few raindrops, maybe catch the scent of desert petrichor, but later see “T” on the weather report rather than a rainfall total. You may have seen rain, but that doesn’t mean ...

The BBC and National Public Radio have reported that a team from the University of Tel Aviv is using the signals from "mobile phone masts" (cellular phone base stations) to measure rainfall. The ...