1. introduction rainfall intensity and duration are one of the most important factors in the occurrence of landslides; therefore, nowadays rainfall is recognized as the most common and triggering factor in the occurrence of landslides. since raw data of landslide displacement is very important to researchers in order to study the deformation process and laws of landslide displacement, the globa...

A knowledge of rainfall distribution over a finite area is needed for small bydraulic structures design. Hydrologists have always been concerned about Depth- Area- Duration (DAD) for a specific storm in a watershed. An intense storm occurred on June 6, 1992 which claimed some lives in parts of Mashhad, Khorasan Province, Iran. Data of rainfall depth at 29 raingauge stations around the city and ...

A knowledge of rainfall distribution over a finite area is needed for small bydraulic structures design. Hydrologists have always been concerned about Depth- Area- Duration (DAD) for a specific storm in a watershed. An intense storm occurred on June 6, 1992 which claimed some lives in parts of Mashhad, Khorasan Province, Iran. Data of rainfall depth at 29 raingauge stations around the city and ...

The temporal variability of rainfall and raindrop processes is examined at time scales ranging from less than 1 minute to 1 hour. Raindrop processes are represented in terms of drop arrival rate, mean diameter and coe cient of variation of drop diameter and modeled as time-varying stochastic processes. It is shown that rainfall rate and accumulated rainfall have simple and accurate representati...

In this paper we use farmers' actual experiences with changes in rainfall levels and theirresponses to these changes to assess if patterns of fertilizer use are responsive tochanges in rainfall patterns. Using plot and farm level panel data from the centralHighlands of Ethiopia matched with corresponding village level rainfall data; resultsshow that both the current year’s d...

The characteristics of rainfall-runoff are important aspects of hydrological processes. In this study, rainfall-runoff processes and soil moisture dynamics at different soil depths and slope positions of grassland with two different row spacings (5 cm and 10 cm, respectively, referred to as R5 and R10) were analyzed, by means of a solution of rainfall simulation experiments. Bare land was also ...

[1] Tide-induced variations in subsurface air pressure, mainly between 1.0 to 2.0 kPa, are observed in coastal areas in Hong Kong. A two-dimensional model which couples the two-phase air-water flow in unsaturated and saturated zones successfully reproduces the observed air pressure under no rain conditions. The simulation reveals that significant increases in air pressure depend on the tidal ra...

Weather is certainly the most important factor over which man has no control, and hence it has created dominance on the success or the failure of agricultural enterprises. Most important efforts since long time have been on weather and rain forecasting. However, the unpredictable nature of rainfall has not changed. Meteorologists can neither solve nor evaluate the problem of effective rainfall ...

Tropical climate is rapidly changing, but the effects of these changes on the geosphere are unknown, despite a likelihood of climatically-induced changes on weathering and erosion. The lack of long, continuous paleo-records prevents an examination of terrestrial responses to climate change with sufficient detail to answer questions about how systems behaved in the past and may alter in the futu...