Conversion of 60-, 30-, 10-, and 5-minute rain rates to 1-minute rates in tropical rain rate measurement

Abstract

In this study, several methods to convert rain rate data for various time intervals to one-minute rates are compared. High-resolution tipping bucket precipitation records for seven locations in a tropical region are analyzed and compared using these conversion models. The Segal, Chebil, and Burgueno methods give the smallest average errors below 10% at different integration times.