On the transposition of short duration rainfall intensity data in mountainous regions

1964 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 438-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. Sporns
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Mohammed T. Mahmoud ◽  
Safa A. Mohammed ◽  
Mohamed A. Hamouda ◽  
Mohamed M. Mohamed

The influence of topographical characteristics and rainfall intensity on the accuracy of satellite precipitation estimates is of importance to the adoption of satellite data for hydrological applications. This study evaluates the three GPM IMERG V05B products over the arid country of Saudi Arabia. Statistical indices quantifying the performance of IMERG products were calculated under three evaluation techniques: seasonal-based, topographical, and rainfall intensity-based. Results indicated that IMERG products have the capability to detect seasons with the highest precipitation values (spring) and seasons with the lowest precipitation (summer). Moreover, results showed that IMERG products performed well under various rainfall intensities, particularly under light rain, which is the most common rainfall in arid regions. Furthermore, IMERG products exhibited high detection accuracy over moderate elevations, whereas it had poor performance over coastal and mountainous regions. Overall, the results confirmed that the performance of the final-run product surpassed the near-real-time products in terms of consistency and errors. IMERG products can improve temporal resolution and play a significant role in filling data gaps in poorly gauged regions. However, due to the errors in IMERG products, it is recommended to use sub-daily rain gauge data in satellite calibration for better rainfall estimation over arid and semiarid regions.


2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Hartati -

Batang Hari is the 2nd biggest DAS in Indonesia. About 76% of Batang Hari DAS is located in Jambi Province, the entire 24%is in West Sumatera Province. Batang Hari dam which was built on 1997 is one of infrastrcture at Public Work ministery under management at Balai Wilayah Sungai Sumatera V (BWSS V) his high potential of water stock. Optimum discharge of Batang Hari Dam is about 86 m3/sec. In the recently years DAS Batang Hari has been disturbed by some changes like catchment area utilized fot other purpose, change on global climate done to greenhouse effectwhich causingintensity of rain as well as flood. This climate change then will affected standard for engineering design for making a water control buiding which may injuireaccurate waterfall intensity data. Study of rainfall intensity obtained from 3 (three) nearby stations will show the characteristic dam trend of distribution with reperted period. Cousistency of data using Mass Curve method and local rain analysis to be done by Arithmatic & Thiessen Polygon method. To analysis trend of rainfall distribution. We use : Normal, Log Normal, Log Person type III and Gumbel methods. For complaince test of distribution, we use Chi-Kuadrat and Smirnov-Kolmogorov methods. Refer to result of distribution using Chi-Kuadrat and Smirnov-Kolmogorov methods for Arithmatic methods it is adviced to use Gumbel method to evaluate distribution trend; because critical deviation is smell comparing to available in table, with rainfall with repeating period 2,5,10,25,50 and 100 years are 124,08 mm, 1168,56 mm, 198,01 mm, 235,22 mm, 262,83 mm, 290,23 mm and Thiessen Polygon 106,93 mm, 138,22 mm, 158,94 mm, 185,11 mm, 204,53 mm, 223,81 mm


1984 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 957-968
Author(s):  
Peishan Chen ◽  
Otto W. Nuttli

Abstract Intensity data for Chinese earthquakes are used to estimate the body-wave magnitude, mb, of selected historical earthquakes and to estimate Q0, the 1-sec period Q value of Lg waves for various geographical areas of China. In order to derive the necessary empirical relation between the intensity distribution and mb, data are used from recent earthquakes, for which instrumentally obtained mb values as well as isoseismal maps are available. Average Qo values are approximately 175 for the mountainous regions of southwest China, 550 for southeastern China, and 150 for Taiwan. These values agree qualitatively with those obtained by Evernden (1983) and Chen et al. (1983), who utilized a different method of analysis of the intensity data


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