Question

You want to determine how many rainfall will fall in a certain time period. You collect rain as they fall from the sky onto a piece of bucket with an area of t square meters. If you want to determine the rainfall count as accurate as possible, you should ideally:

a. collect samples at various times during daylight hour
b. collect samples several times for different durations
c. collect simultaneous samples and average the samples

i think A? not sure. what do you think? Also, plz explain your explanation.

Answer 1

Read this:

http://scied.ucar.edu/blog/measuring-rainfall-%E2%80%93-it%E2%80%99s-easy-and-difficult-same-time-0