Rainfall Intensities for Southeastern Arizona
Publication: Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 114, Issue 1
Abstract
Small watershed storm runoff in the southwestern United States is dominated by intense, short-duration convective rains of limited areal extent. Most commonly, flood peak estimates are based on rainfall predictions found in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Atlas 2, a precipitation-frequency atlas for the Western United States. Records of short-duration rainfall (5 to 30 min. duration) from a dense network of recording rain gauges in southeastern Arizona indicate that flood peaks based on NOAA Atlas 2 for less frequent events (50-yr. and 100-yr. frequencies) for small watersheds are underestimated.
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Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 114 • Issue 1 • February 1988
Pages: 195 - 199
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Copyright © 1988 ASCE.
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Published online: Feb 1, 1988
Published in print: Feb 1988
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