Sentences with phrase «rainfall totals rather»

Their methods were a little different: they focused on 7 - day rainfall totals rather than 3 - day totals, for example, and checked for the influence of El Niño / La Niña conditions.

Not exact matches

However, many processes that remove water from the atmosphere (i.e. cloud formation and rainfall) have a clear functional dependence on the relative humidity rather than the total amount of water (i.e. clouds form when air parcels are saturated at their local temperature, not when humidity reaches X g / m3).

My goal is to justify a Levy distribution for daily rainfall totals based on some rather well - understood physics (which doesn't appear to be known by hydrologists) in order to motivate those with lotsa data to see how well the Levy distribution fits the data.