A review of statistical analyses on monthly and daily rainfall in Catalonia

Abstract

A review on recent studies about monthly and daily rainfall in Catalonia is presented. Monthly rainfall is analysed along the west Mediterranean Coast and in Catalonia, quantifying aspects as the irregularity of monthly amounts and the spatial distribution of the Standard Precipitation Index. Several statistics are applied to daily rainfall series such as their extreme value and intra- annual spatial distributions, the variability of the average and standard deviation rain amounts for each month, their amount and time distributions, and time trends affecting four pluviometric indices for different percentiles and class intervals. All these different analyses constitute the continuity of the scientific study of Catalan rainfall, which started about a century ago.