Rainfall models – a study over Gangtok

Authors

  • K. SEETHARAM Regional Meteorological Centre, Alipore, Kolkata, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54302/mausam.v61i2.819

Keywords:

Pearson's system of curves, Probability distribution function, Uniform distribution, Percentiles, Quartiles, Probability

Abstract

In this paper, the Pearsonian system of curves were fitted to the monthly rainfalls from January to December, in addition to the seasonal as well as annual rainfalls totalling to 14 data sets of the period 1957-2005 with 49 years of duration for the station Gangtok to determine the probability distribution function of these data sets. The study indicated that the monthly rainfall of July and summer monsoon seasonal rainfall did not fit in to any of the Pearsonian system of curves, but the monthly rainfalls of other months and the annual rainfalls of Gangtok station indicated to fit into Pearsonian type-I distribution which in other words is an uniform distribution. Anderson-Darling test was applied to for null hypothesis. The test indicated the acceptance of null-hypothesis. The statistics of the data sets and their probability distributions are discussed in this paper.

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Published

01-04-2010

How to Cite

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K. . SEETHARAM, “Rainfall models – a study over Gangtok”, MAUSAM, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 225–228, Apr. 2010.

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Vol. 61 No. 2 (2010): MAUSAM

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