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16 Mar 2017
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| 16 Mar 2017
Assessment of snowfall accumulation underestimation by tipping bucket gauges in the Spanish operational network
Samuel T. Buisán
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Delegación Territorial de AEMET (Spanish State Meteorological
Agency) en Aragón, Paseo del Canal 17, Zaragoza, 50007, Spain
Michael E. Earle
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Meteorological Service of
Canada, Observing Systems and Engineering, Dartmouth, NS, Canada
José Luís Collado
Delegación Territorial de AEMET (Spanish State Meteorological
Agency) en Aragón, Paseo del Canal 17, Zaragoza, 50007, Spain
John Kochendorfer
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Air Resources
Laboratory, Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division, Oak Ridge, TN,
USA
Javier Alastrué
Delegación Territorial de AEMET (Spanish State Meteorological
Agency) en Aragón, Paseo del Canal 17, Zaragoza, 50007, Spain
Mareile Wolff
Norwegian Meteorological institute, Oslo, Norway
Craig D. Smith
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Climate Research Division, 11 Innovation Blvd, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Juan I. López-Moreno
Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, CSIC (Spanish Research
Council), Campus de Aula Dei, P.O. Box 202, Zaragoza 50080, Spain
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Short summary
Within the framework of the WMO-SPICE (Solid Precipitation Intercomparison Experiment) the Thies tipping bucket precipitation gauge, widely used at AEMET, was assessed against the SPICE reference.
Most countries use tipping buckets and for this reason the underestimation of snowfall precipitation is a large-scale problem.
The methodology presented here can be used by other national weather services to test precipitation bias corrections and to identify regions where errors are higher.
Within the framework of the WMO-SPICE (Solid Precipitation Intercomparison Experiment) the Thies...
