Open AccessUnderstanding temporal rainfall intensity scaling
Author(s) -
Balcerak Ernie
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2012eo430013
Subject(s) - intermittency , spurious relationship , scaling , environmental science , storm , intensity (physics) , alternation (linguistics) , atmospheric sciences , climatology , meteorology , mathematics , geology , geography , statistics , physics , geometry , quantum mechanics , linguistics , philosophy , turbulence
Understanding how rainfall intensity scales with time is useful for determining how often and for how long the most intense rainfall bursts are likely to occur. The most common way to study temporal rainfall scaling is to analyze continuous rainfall measurements, including rainstorms and dry interstorm periods. However, Veneziano and Lepore now show that continuous analysis produces spurious results that mainly reflect the alternation of dry and wet periods. Analyzing within‐storm intensity rather than continuous records gives results showing higher intermittency.