Wind Driven Rain measurement facility
Wind driven rain is measured using in-house designed driving rain gauges installed on cubical elements which can be arranged in different urban configurations (scale 1:2). Two different geometries have been measured: an array of 9 low-rise cubes and two parallel buildings. The datasets of rain events and wind driven rain events are available online for download and are intended for WDR model development and validation in the Downloads section.
Geometries of a) regular cubic array and b) parallel building models for WDR field measurements.
a) Positions of wind-driven rain gauges and two ultrasonic anemometers on a cubic building. b) Collector and the tipping bucket sensor located inside the cubic models.