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Evaluation of precipitation measurement methods using data from a precision lysimeter network
Tobias Schnepper
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute of Bio- and Geoscience IBG-3: Agrosphere, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52428 Jülich, Germany
Institute for Geosciences, University of Bonn, Nussallee 8, 53113 Bonn, Germany
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Jannis Groh
Institute of Bio- and Geoscience IBG-3: Agrosphere, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52428 Jülich, Germany
Research
Area 1 “Landscape Functioning”, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Eberswalder Straße 84, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany
Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation – Soil Science and Soil Ecology, University of Bonn, Nussallee 13, 53113 Bonn, Germany
Horst H. Gerke
Research
Area 1 “Landscape Functioning”, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Eberswalder Straße 84, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany
Barbara Reichert
Institute for Geosciences, University of Bonn, Nussallee 8, 53113 Bonn, Germany
Thomas Pütz
Institute of Bio- and Geoscience IBG-3: Agrosphere, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52428 Jülich, Germany
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Short summary
We compared hourly data from precipitation gauges with lysimeter reference data at three sites under different climatic conditions. Our results show that precipitation gauges recorded 33–96 % of the reference precipitation data for the period under consideration (2015–2018). Correction algorithms increased the registered precipitation by 9–14 %. It follows that when using point precipitation data, regardless of the precipitation measurement method used, relevant uncertainties must be considered.
We compared hourly data from precipitation gauges with lysimeter reference data at three sites...
