Northern Hemisphere Atlas of 1-Minute Rainfall Rates

Abstract

A model for estimating 1-min rainfall rates at a location for which routine climatic data are available was used to produce this atlas. Even though data were available for 3631 locations, considerable subjectivity and smoothing of the analyses were required because of the low station-density outside of North America and Europe. Northern Hemisphere analyses of rainfall rates equalled or exceeded 0.01, 0.05, 0.10, 0.50, and 1.0 percent of the time are presented for four mid-season months. Analyses of the highest rainfall rates for the same frequencies of occurrence regardless of the month in which they occur and companion analyses of the month in which the highest rate occurs are also presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 04, 1983
Accession Number
ADA145411

Entities

People

  • D. D. Grantham
  • P. Tattelman

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Asia
  • Death
  • Frequency
  • Hemispheres
  • Islands
  • Latitude
  • North America
  • Northern Hemisphere
  • Precipitation
  • Protective Coverings
  • Rain
  • Rainfall
  • Regression Analysis
  • South America
  • Spatial Distribution
  • United States

Readers

  • Climatology
  • Library and Information Science/ Studies, Southeast Asia Studies, Bibliography of Vietnam and Lao Studies.
  • Mathematics or Statistics