Daily and hourly rainfall distribution in space and time - conditions in southern Sweden
Författare
Summary, in English
Very extreme events occur randomly in space and in time. In this paper daily precipitation from more than 200 stations within a 10 000 km(2) region in the very south of Sweden is analysed. While there is a relation between moderate daily precipitation and annual precipitation, the most extreme events are found to be independent of annual precipitation and also of altitude and distance to the sea. The most extreme events are distributed evenly over the region. Variations of the climate are considered. For three cities daily storms are analysed for a period of 89 years. No trend over time is found of the daily high precipitation. Hourly storms are analysed for four stations within the city of Malmo. The probability of concurrent events is rather high, but there is little correlation between the rain intensities at the different stations during the most intense events.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2011
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
86-94
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Hydrology Research
Volym
42
Issue
2-3
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
IWA Publishing
Ämne
- Water Engineering
Nyckelord
- concurrent events
- error analysis
- peaks over threshold
- trends
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1998-9563