Something fishy going on! Evaluating the Poisson hypothesis for rainfall estimation using intervalometers: first results from an experiment in Tanzania

Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to climate change. This is largely driven by the dependence on rain fed agriculture for food production. At the same time African climate observational networks have been in decline since the 1990s. A new kind of rainfall sensor (the intervalometer), which counts the arrival...