Open AccessRainfall persistence in India during May-October
Author(s) -
T. Srinivasan
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
mausam
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.243
H-Index - 12
ISSN - 0252-9416
DOI - 10.54302/mausam.v15i2.5530
Subject(s) - monsoon , hydrology (agriculture) , environmental science , climatology , persistence (discontinuity) , drainage basin , range (aeronautics) , geography , water resource management , meteorology , geology , engineering , cartography , geotechnical engineering , aerospace engineering
For the purposes of long term planning for storage and conservation of water the Damodar Valley Corporation engineers wanted a long range forecast of monsoon rainfall in respect of the different catchments of the river Damodar. The problem was studied by correlation method and an attempt was made to forecast the June-September and June-July rainfall in the catchment areas by means of regression equation