Daily rainfall along the United States Pacific Coast appears to conform to a square-root normal probability distribution
EXTRACT (SEE PDF FOR FULL ABSTRACT):As part of a study of climatic influences on landslide initiation, a statistical analysis of long-term (>40 years) records of daily rainfall from 24 Pacific coastal stations, from San Diego to Cape Flattery, disclosed an unexpected result - the square root of the daily rainfall closely approximates a normal distribution function. ... This paper illustrates the use of the square-root-normal distribution to analyze variations in precipitation along the mainland United States Pacific Coast with examples of orographic enhancement, rain shadows, and increase in precipitation frequency with geographic latitude.
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| Format: | conference_item biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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1997
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| Subjects: | Atmospheric Sciences, PACLIM, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/31640 |
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