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GENERALIZING DRY‐DAY FREQUENCY DATA
Author(s) -
Hershfield David M.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1970.tb03853.x
Subject(s) - precipitation , environmental science , statistics , period (music) , mathematics , meteorology , econometrics , hydrology (agriculture) , geography , engineering , physics , acoustics , geotechnical engineering
Farmers and water utilities men know that dry‐period frequency information is an important parameter in defining the precipitation regime of an area. A procedure is presented for obtaining the probability of dry‐day sequences up to 20 days in length.