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© 2025 The Author(s). Weather published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Royal Meteorological Society.Tipping-bucket rain gauges are crucial for the measurement of precipitation. However, gauge-measured precipitation is affected by a myriad of errors, with wind-induced undercatch typically being the most significant of the local errors. Here, we review the rain gauge undercatch phenomenon and methods developed for its reduction and correction. We find that refined gauge design and installation practices have reduced undercatch, and post-collection correction methodologies for undercatch have been developed. However, we recommend that more work is needed to communicate the importance of this phenomenon, and that existing correction methodologies are still not robust enough to be widely adopted.
Author(s): Dunn RE, Fowler HJ, Green AC, Lewis E
Publication type: Review
Publication status: Published
Journal: Weather
Year: 2025
Volume: 80
Issue: 6
Pages: 196-205
Print publication date: 01/06/2025
Online publication date: 19/05/2025
Acceptance date: 06/05/2025
ISSN (print): 0043-1656
ISSN (electronic): 1477-8696
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.7736
DOI: 10.1002/wea.7736
Data Access Statement: Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analyzed in this study
