@article {Nicks443, author = {Arlin D. Nicks}, title = {Spatial and temporal precipitation characteristics over a large gaged network}, volume = {50}, number = {5}, pages = {443--445}, year = {1995}, publisher = {Soil and Water Conservation Society}, abstract = {A network of 168 recording precipitation gages was operated by the USDA-Agri-cultural Research Service in south central Oklahoma from October 1961 until October 1986. This network, the largest of its kind, consisted of weighing recording rain gages spaced on a 5km by 5km grid over a 3,900km2 area. Data gathered from this network provide spatial and temporal characteristics of frontal and air mass storm precipitation at a scale that far surpasses the normal climatic station spacing (approximately 50km). These data are not only useful for furnishing the detailed precipitation inputs to 50 watershed studies conducted on areas of a few hectares to 2940 km2, but also provide invaluable information for stochastic modeling of storm precipitation inputs for hydrologic simulation models. Analyses of 24 years of daily precipitation data collected from this network depict annual spatial variation of precipitation, as well as distribution of storm size, orientation, and spatial occurrence that are required for stochastic representation of storm area precipitation.}, issn = {0022-4561}, URL = {https://www.jswconline.org/content/50/5/443}, eprint = {https://www.jswconline.org/content/50/5/443.full.pdf}, journal = {Journal of Soil and Water Conservation} }