Description : What is the name of the rain gauge ?
Last Answer : : The name of the rain gauge is Raingage.
Description : What is Rain Gauge ?
Last Answer : It is an instrument used to measure rainfall.
Description : Why do you think the glass measure cylinder of the rain gauge is inside an outer conntainer?
Last Answer : It's to prevent false readings by water droplets being swept into the container by wind. Only water that falls though the collecting funnel counts towards the final measurement.
Description : Which of the following is not correct? (1) Ammeter measures the strength of electric current. (2) Lactometer measures the relative density of milk. (3) Rain gauge measures rain fall (4) Hygrometer measures sound under water.
Last Answer : (4) Hygrometer measures sound under water. Explanation: A hygrometer is a weather instrument used to measure the amount of humidity in the atmosphere
Description : While calculating the average depth of annual precipitation in a catchment basin, importance to individual rain-gauge station is given in (A) Arithmetical method (B) Thiessen's mean method (C) Isohyetal method (D) Both (b) and (c)
Last Answer : Answer: Option D
Description : A recording type rain gauge (A) Produces a mass curve of rain fall (B) Records the cumulative rain (C) Is sometimes called integrating rain gauge or continuous rain gauge (D) All the above
Description : Symon's rain gauge is (A) Tipping-bucket gauge (B) Weighing type gauge (C) Float recording gauge (D) Non-recording gauge
Description : The standard height of a standard rain gauge, is (A) 10 cm (B) 20 cm (C) 30 cm (D) 50 cm
Last Answer : Answer: Option C
Description : Pick up the correct statement from the following: (A) Higher the gauge, more deficient will be the rain catch (B) Heavier the rain, lesser will be the rain catch (C) The trees serving as wind brakes in the vicinity of the gauge, should not subtend angles greater than 45° (D) All the above
Description : The deficiency in rain catch due to vertical acceleration of air forced upward over the gauge, is (A) Greater for heavy rain (B) Greater for lighter rain (C) Greater for large drops (D) Lesser for small rain drops
Last Answer : Answer: Option B
Description : In India the recording type rain gauge generally used, is (A) Weighing type (B) Tipping type (C) Float recording type (D) None of these
Description : Describe in brief working of Symons rain gauge with neat labelled sketch.
Last Answer : The most common type of non- recording rain gauges used in our country is the Symon's raingauge'. Working: A Symons Rain gauge consists of a cylindrical vessel of 127 mm internal diameter with an enlarged ... rim which is then measured by the measuring glass in mm' and tenth of mm'