Mountain Raingers

a collaboration with Duke University

UNC Asheville students involved in the Duke University Great Smoky Mountains National Park Rain Gauge Network Facility project;

Jackson, Wayne, Jacob, Andrew, Sara, Kaitlyn, Josh

[not pictured: Brooks]

Renewal Project Description (1 July 2016, modified slightly on 6 October 2017)

trails in the GSMNP (added 27 September 2018)

locations of the Duke GSMRGN gauges (added 9 March 2021)

IPHEx real-time rawinsode observations (added 15 April 2014)

Eight years of collecting rainfall in the mountains, what have we learned? (added 15 June 2015)

background on Global Precipitation Mission (NASA)

GPM launch (video: NASA) (28 February 2014)

Remote Sensing (Part I) (June 2021)

Remote Sensing (Part II) (June 2021)

Atmosphere (February 2019)

Weather and Forecasting (February 2018)

ML1 time check and data download procedure (added 16 November 2011)

Gauge visit procedure (non-calibration instructions, added 20 October 2011)

Gauge Driving Directions (look at the bottom of each history file, courtesy of Daniel Martin [v. November 2011])

Sample file of gauge visit field notes

recent footage from gauge visits (May 2016, courtesy Jonathan Holt, Duke University)