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Application of spatial Poisson process models to air mass thunderstorm rainfallEight years of summer storm rainfall observations from 93 stations in and around the 154 sq km Walnut Gulch catchment of the Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, in Arizona are processed to yield the total station depths of 428 storms. Statistical analysis of these random fields yields the first two moments, the spatial correlation and variance functions, and the spatial distribution of total rainfall for each storm. The absolute and relative worth of three Poisson models are evaluated by comparing their prediction of the spatial distribution of storm rainfall with observations from the second half of the sample. The effect of interstorm parameter variation is examined.
Document ID
19870066886
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Eagleson, P. S.
(Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. Cambridge, MA, United States)
Fennessy, N. M.
(MIT Cambridge, MA, United States)
Wang, Qinliang
(Ministry of Water Resources and Electric Power Wuhan, People's Republic of China, United States)
Rodriguez-Iturbe, I.
(Universidad Simon Bolivar Caracas, Venezuela)
Date Acquired
August 13, 2013
Publication Date
August 20, 1987
Publication Information
Publication: Journal of Geophysical Research
Volume: 92
ISSN: 0148-0227
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Accession Number
87A54160
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG5-388
CONTRACT_GRANT: NSF ATM-84-20781
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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