Open AccessStatistical forecasting of heavy rain and floods in the river Teesta
Author(s) -
Abhijit Lahiri
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
mausam
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0252-9416
DOI - 10.54302/mausam.v32i1.3430
Subject(s) - precipitation , environmental science , meteorology , quantitative precipitation forecast , drainage basin , contingency table , climatology , flood forecasting , hydrology (agriculture) , geography , geology , cartography , statistics , mathematics , geotechnical engineering
In this paper association of various heavy rain-producing synoptic systems with intervals of average areal precipitation in the catchment of the river Teesta have been studied by the method of two-way contingency tables for use in quantitative precipitation forecasting.