Ground base information
The Raingauge provided from CIMH is a stainless steel outdoor unit with a diameter of 8 inch. It collect rain passing through debris-filtering screen and filling one of two tipping buckets inside the gauge. When a given amount of water is collected, the bucket tips and causing a magnet to pass over a switch for detection. Then the second bucket can be filled. The tips are counted by a small electronic device designed and built by Marvin Forde from CIMH and there they are summed up and stored on a computer.
Link to Sutron
Our WXT520 sensor from VAISALA provides 6 most essential weather parameters highly accurate and stable. Standard ground base information windspeed, winddirection, rainfall, temperature, humidity and barometric pressure are collected and stored daily.