| Data Platform | UW Raingauge Network |
| Description | The University of Washington placed all-weather rain gauges at five sites on the western Olympic Peninsula. Each site was equipped with two rain gauges for the purposes of redundancy and quality control. Each rain gauge was essentially an antifreeze storage reservoir connected to a tipping bucket. Precipitation (either as rain or snow) falls into the storage reservoir and melts. An equal volume of the antifreeze solution is then discharged into the tipping bucket. The tipping bucket tips when 1 mm of precipitation has fallen and the time of each tip is recorded by a datalogger. The sites were co-located with existing observational assets to the extent possible. |
| Location(s) | Donkey Creek, WA (don): Lat: 47.3052, Lon: -123.7666, Elev: 252 m Kalaloch, WA (kal): Lat: 47.5523, Lon: -124.3553, Elev: 31 m Moclips, WA (moc): Lat: 47.2533, Lon: -124.2169, Elev: 39 m Quinault Ridge, WA (qui): Lat: 47.6476, Lon: -124.0396, Elev: 651 m Wynoochee Dam, WA (wyn): Lat: 47.3864, Lon: -123.6064, Elev: 207 m |
| Operators | Pascal Storck (UW) |
| Data Format(s) | Excel Spreadsheet |
| Software | MS Excel |
| Data Location(s) | /home/disk/wrf1/improve1/raingauges |