... of numerous debris flows, establish their origin from soil slips, and compare the times of those events with rainfall records from an extensive network of continuously recording rain gauges and a sequential set of radar weather maps. An empirical association between soil slips and rainfall suggests that a 10...

... of mudflow origin. Historically, mudflows there have been observed in association with three climatic conditions: (1) short period of high-intensity rainfall during the summer dry season (thunderstorms); (2) periods of heavy rainfall during the October-March winter season, when most of the year's rain...

...R. E. Harris; A. C. Carder Abstract The performance of four types of rain gauges and three methods of measuring snow-fall were compared over a 10 year period. Under the conditions of the test the United States Weather Bureau's (now National Weather Service, NOAA) standard precipitation gauge proved...