Precipitation network design for mountainous catchment

Authors

  • SURINDER KAUR India Meteorological Department, New Delhi, India
  • DS UPADHYAY India Meteorological Department, New Delhi, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54302/mausam.v38i1.2652

Abstract

The precipitation in mountainous region has higher spatial variability and the correlation r(s) between precipitation series recorded at two stations distant 's’ apart decreases with s at faster rate than in plain region. As such, a denser network would be desirable in mountains for the estimation of areal precipitation.

In this paper, the correlation approach to derive the variance of areal precipitation has been discussed and a procedure is outlined for evaluation of network density m respect of (a) flood forecasting events, (b) long term climatological purposes.

The scheme suggested has been illustrated for Beas catchment (area: 12509 km2) in Western Himalayas.

 

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01-01-1987

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S. . KAUR and D. UPADHYAY, “Precipitation network design for mountainous catchment”, MAUSAM, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 73–78, Jan. 1987.

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Vol. 38 No. 1 (1987): MAUSAM

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