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The 1993 Midwest Extreme Precipitation in Historical and Probabilistic Perspective

The 1993 Midwest Extreme Precipitation in Historical and Probabilistic Perspective Extreme rainfall amounts that resulted in severe flooding during the spring and summer of 1993 along the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers are examined from a historical and probabilistic viewpoint. Long-term average precipitation amounts and the departures of the 1993 summer rainfall from these averages are presented. Also, climatic regionalization and precipitation probabilities developed for the National Drought Atlas using L-moment techniques have been applied to the drainage area that contributed to the flooding. The exceedance probabilities of monthly and multiple-month observed precipitation amounts have been calculated. The results show that the three-month period MayJuly experienced unusually heavy rainfall when compared to prior years, and that July was particularly wet. Recurrence intervals for the rainfall events vary widely depending on the specific time period and locality, but the observed precipitation was an extreme event. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society American Meteorological Society

The 1993 Midwest Extreme Precipitation in Historical and Probabilistic Perspective

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Publisher
American Meteorological Society
Copyright
Copyright © American Meteorological Society
ISSN
1520-0477
DOI
10.1175/1520-0477(1994)075<1785:TMEPIH>2.0.CO;2
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Abstract

Extreme rainfall amounts that resulted in severe flooding during the spring and summer of 1993 along the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers are examined from a historical and probabilistic viewpoint. Long-term average precipitation amounts and the departures of the 1993 summer rainfall from these averages are presented. Also, climatic regionalization and precipitation probabilities developed for the National Drought Atlas using L-moment techniques have been applied to the drainage area that contributed to the flooding. The exceedance probabilities of monthly and multiple-month observed precipitation amounts have been calculated. The results show that the three-month period MayJuly experienced unusually heavy rainfall when compared to prior years, and that July was particularly wet. Recurrence intervals for the rainfall events vary widely depending on the specific time period and locality, but the observed precipitation was an extreme event.

Journal

Bulletin of the American Meteorological SocietyAmerican Meteorological Society

Published: Oct 25, 1994

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