Modeling and forecasting dynamics of rainfall occurrences constitute one of the major topics, which have been largely treated by statisticians, hydrologists, climatologists and many other groups of scientists. In the same issue, we propose, in the present paper, a new hybrid method, which combines Extreme Values and fractal theories. We illustrate the use of our methodology for transformed Embe...

This paper seeks to emphasize the flow variability in the Calnistea catchment by analyzing the local physiographic factors. The research has shown that the amount of precipitation that falls to the ground is low, the rocks in the region are soft, but highly permeable, gradients are gentle in most of the territory and vegetal cover is sparse and therefore cannot hold important amounts of water. ...

This study investigated a rainfall event under typhoon influence using 2D video disdrometer and weather radar observations to characterize raindrop size distribution (DSD) in mixed convective stratiform precipitating system. During the time period when both rainfalls existed, DSDs generally indicated monotonically decreasing shape with increasing particle size, relatively gradual decrease at in...

BACKGROUND Extreme precipitation events are increasing as a result of ongoing global warming, but controversy surrounds the relationship between flooding and mosquito-borne diseases. A common view among the scientific community and public health officers is that heavy rainfalls have a flushing effect on breeding sites, which negatively affects vector populations, thereby diminishing disease tra...

Combined presentation of the talks given by the two authors at the workshop " RHIC Physics and Beyond – Abstract. We report on work done in collaboration with Klaus Kinder-Geiger and John Ellis which aims at connecting the space-time structure of event generator simulations with observable output. Klaus Geiger was an important driving force in our search for understanding the dynamics of ultrar...