Rainfall : behavior, forecasting and distribution / Olga E. Martín and Tricia M. Roberts, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martín, Olga E.

Roberts, Tricia M.

Series:

Environmental science, engineering and technology series.

Environmental science, engineering and technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rain and rainfall.

Rain and rainfall--Forecasting.

Rainfall anomalies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book, the authors present topical research in the study of the behaviour, forecasting and distribution of rainfall variability. Topics discussed in this compilation include coping strategies in relation to local rainfall variability in Tanzania; rainfall variability and changes in Bangladesh; non-parametric methods for forecasting time series from cumulative monthly rainfall; long term and interannual rainfall variability in the Argentinean Chaco plain region; study of wet scavenging of atmospheric aerosols using decay products in rainwater; spatial variability of rain and its erosivity in a tropical semi-arid area in Kenya; potential of the piezoelectric transducer for direct rainfall kinetic energy measurement and erosivity evaluation; climatology and rainfall in north-east Brazil; and the Kalman Filtering approach in the calibration of radar rainfall data.

Contents:

Intro

RAINFALL: BEHAVIOR, FORECASTING AND DISTRIBUTION

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

CONTENTS

PREFACE

Chapter 1: COPING WITH RAINFALL VARIABILITY IN NORTHERN TANZANIA

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION

LOCAL CONTEXT

DATA AND METHODOLOGY

RESULT AND DISCUSSION

Rainfall Variability and Shocks to Household Income

Household Coping Strategies

CONCLUSION

REFERENCES

Chapter 2: RAINFALL VARIABILITY AND CHANGES IN BANGLADESH DURING THE LAST FIFTY YEARS

1. INTRODUCTION

2. DATA AND METHODOLOGY

2.1. Data

2.2. Data Quality Control

2.3. Methodology

3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

3. 1. Spatial Variability of Rainfall over Bangladesh

3.2. Aridity Indices

3.3. Inter-Annual Variability of Rainfall

3.4. Intra-Annual Distribution of Rainfall

3.5. Trend of Rainfall

3.6. Trends in Precipitation Concentration Indices

Chapter 3: NON-PARAMETRIC METHODS FOR FORECASTING TIME SERIES FROM CUMULATIVE MONTHLY RAINFALL

Motivations

Forecast Problem Statement

METHODS

Samples of Mackey Glass Equation

Overview on Fractional Brownian Motion

ANN-Based NAR Model

Performance Measure for Forecasting

CASE 1

Set-Up of Model and Learning Process

Prediction Results for the MG and Santa Francisca Time Series

CASE 2

Sub-Sampling General Description

Methodology Proposed

Proposed Solution

Model Setup and Adjustment Process

Results of the Test with MG Series

Comments and Remarks

CASE 3

Approximation by Primitive

Prediction Results with MG and Santa Francisca Time Series

OBTAINED RESULTS

REFERENCES.

Chapter 4: LONG TERM AND INTERANNUAL RAINFALL VARIABILITY IN ARGENTINEAN CHACO PLAIN REGION

3. LONG TERM AND OTHER RAINFALL VARIABILITY

4. ANALYSIS OF INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY OF SUMMER RAINFALL

5. CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE CHACO PLAIN REGION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Chapter 5: RAINFALL AND WATER QUALITY

2. WATER QUALITY

3. IMPACT OF RAINFALL ON URBAN WATER CYCLE(FROM WASTEWATER TO THE ENVIRONMENT)

4. RAINFALL AND WATER RESOURCE(QUALITY MODIFICATION OF NATURAL WATER)

5. IMPACT ON DRINKING WATER PRODUCTION

Chapter 6: STUDY OF WET SCAVENGING OF ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS USING 222RN DECAY PRODUCTS IN RAINWATER

2. MEASUREMENT OF CONCENTRATIONS OF222RN DECAYPRODUCTS IN RAINWATER

2.1. Previous Study

2.2. Measurement in This Study

2.3. Results and Discussion

3. SCAVENGING MODEL OF ATMOSPHERIC222RN DECAYPRODUCTS BY RAINFALL

3.1. Previous Study

3.2. Model in This Study

3.3. Results and Discussion

4. ANALYSIS OF INCREASE IN ENVIRONMENTAL GAMMA-RAYDOSE RATE BY RAINFALL

Chapter 7: SPATIAL VARIABILITY OF RAIN AND ITS EROSIVITYIN A TROPICAL SEMI-ARID AREA IN KENYA

2. MATERIALS AND METHODS

2.1. Study Area

2.2. Rain Gauge Network

2.3 Raindrop Size Measurements

2.4. Statistical and Mapping Methods

3.1. Spatial Variation of Rain

3.2. Rain Intensity

3.3. Raindrop Size and Rain Intensity

3.4. Rain Kinetic Energy

Chapter 8: RAINFALL EROSIVITY MEASUREMENT ANDEVALUATION: POTENTIAL OF PIEZOELECTRICTRANSDUCERS UNDER TOTTORI, JAPAN RAINFALL

1.1. Micro-Structural Rainfall Erosivity Indices.

1.2. Macro-Structural Rainfall Erosivity Indices

1.3. Combined Rainfall Erosivity Indices

1.4. Erosivity Measurement and Evaluation

2. PIEZOELECTRIC SENSORS FOR RAINFALL EROSIVITY

2.2. Piezoelectric Transducers

2.3. Erosivity Evaluation

3. PIEZOELECTRIC OUTPUT

4. RAINFALL EROSIVITY

Chapter 9: TREND OF RAIN IN NORTHEAST BRAZIL

MATERIAL AND METHODS

1. Data

2. Methodology

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Chapter 10: KALMAN FILTERING APPROACH IN THECALIBRATION OF RADAR RAINFALL DATA -A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF STATE SPACEREPRESENTATIONS

Abstract

1. Introduction

2. Kalman Filtering Approach

2.1. State space models and the Kalman filter

2.2. Models

2.3. Estimation of the parameters

3. Comparative Study

3.1. Experiment description

3.2. Models specification

3.3. Calibration procedure

3.4. Models performance assessment

4. Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

INDEX.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-62081-591-5

OCLC:

831625649