What is it about?
This paper describes a Citizen Science project that involved school children from Leicester, Birmingham and Manchester. All of the participants made measurements using home-made rain gauges, which were then used to inform on the precipitation that was present in each of these cities over a 6-week period.
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Why is it important?
This work is important because it demonstrates how effective a relatively small scale, and low-cost citizen science project can be. The results from tis study were able to provide a more spatially dense network of measurements than what was available from the UK Met Office at that time.
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This page is a summary of: UK Citizen Rainfall Network: a pilot study, Weather, July 2014, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/wea.2244.
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