Baltimore Ecosystem Study: Precipitation measurements at eight stations

Abstract: Rain depth is collected using model 6011-A tipping bucket
rain gauges manufactured by All Weather Inc. (formerly Qualimetrics).
Two raingauges (RG1 and RG2) are installed at each of eight stations.
Each rain gauge tip represents a depth of 0.01 inches of rainfall.
Data are recorded by a data logger at the station and telemetered
hourly to UMBC, where the data are stored in a data base. The rain
gauges are not heated and therefore snow and ice storms are removed
from the published record. The QA/QC procedure applied to the raw data
includes removal of false tips and snow/ice events, accumulating tip
data to a time series in inches/min, applying a laboratory-based
calibration curve to the data, and converting corrected data to a
one-minute time series in units of mm/min for publication.