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Rainfall question

#1 Postby wyq614 » Sat May 23, 2009 9:25 pm

I've met with two concept on rainfall

RAINFALL INTENSITY and RAINFALL STRENGTH

Is there any difference between the two? Or they are just the same?
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Re: Rainfall question

#2 Postby wall_cloud » Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:07 am

never heard of rainfall strength. I would assume so, but I really can't answer the question.
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Re: Rainfall question

#3 Postby theavocado » Sun Jun 14, 2009 2:29 pm

The one guess I have is that "strength" if often used in reference to RADAR (i.e. return strength) and therefore "rain strength" might be a reference to the radar return from precipitation that is not being measured with a rain gauge. Rain intensity is the proper term for rain measured depth*time.
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Re: Rainfall question

#4 Postby Ptarmigan » Sat Jul 04, 2009 5:34 pm

I have never heard of rainfall strength. As for rainfall intensity is the rate of rainfall per hour.
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