Exploratory analysis of precipitation events with implications for stochastic modeling.

Abstract

The use of a concept called a precipitation 'event' to obtain information regarding certain statistical properties of precipitation time series at a particular location and for a specific application (e.g., for modeling erosion) is described. Exploratory data analysis is used to examine several characteristics of more than 31 years of primitive precipitation events is defined as one or more consecutive hours with at least 0.01 inches (0.25 mm) of precipitation. -from Authors