References and Support Documents

These are links to references and sites that are supporting of the analysis of rainfall.

References

• Asquith, W.H. (1998). Depth-duration frequency of precipitation for Texas, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY: Water-Resources Investigations Report 98-4044.
• Curtis, D.C. & Burnash, R.J.C. (1996). Inadvertent Rain Gauge Inconsistencies and Their Effect on Hydrologic Analysis. 1996 California-Nevada ALERT Users Group Conference, Ventura, CA.
• Dwyer, I.J. & Reed, D.W. (1995). Allowance for Discretization in Hydrological and Environmental Risk Estimation, Institute of Hydrology, Report No. 123, January 1995.
• Jakob, D., Taylor, B. & Xuereb, K. (2005). A pilot study to explore methods for deriving design rainfalls for Australia-Part 1. Hydrology Report Series, Report No. 10.
• Julian, L.T., Lin, B., Daniel, J.M., Davila, T., Chin, E.H., Gillette, S.M. & Yekta, M. (1997). Ohio River Basin Precipitation Frequency Study: Update of Technical Paper 40.
• Parrett, C. (1997). Regional Analysis of Annual Precipitation Maxima in Montana, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY: Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4004. 
• Young, B. & McEnroe, B.M. (2003). Sampling Adjustment Factors for Rainfall Recorded at Fixed Time Intervals, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 8(5), 294-296.
• Wallis, J.R., Schaefer, M.G., Barker, B.L. & Taylor, G.H.  (2007). Regional precipitation-frequency analysis and spatial mapping for 24-hour and 2-hour durations for Washington State. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 11(1), 415-442.
• Weaver, J.C. (2006). Frequency of Annual Maximum Precipitation in the City of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, through 2004, Scientific Investigations Report 2006–5017.

   

  Supporting Documents

   

   

   

   

  Distribution Analysis Techniques

   

  These articles are all from Wikipedia. Information about all distribution techniques appropriate to rainfall analysis are available in the probability distribution reference at wikipedia.

   

  • Normal Distribution
  • Pearson and Log Pearson Distribution
  • Gumbel Distribution
  • GEV Distribution
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• Weiss, L.L. (1962). A general relation between frequency and duration of precipitation, Monthly Weather Review, 90 (3), 87-88.
• Hawaii Precipitation Frequency Report Project: Update of Technical Paper 43.