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It has been noted in Chapter 10 that an important problem in hydrometeorology is to estimate the frequency of maximum rainfall or design storm rainfall of a specified duration that is likely to occur at a selected station or in a selected river catchment for designing hydraulic structures subject to flooding, such as bridges, culverts and dams. In the same chapter it was also mentioned that the statistical method is one of the four methods for estimating design storms. In this method an estimate of the frequency with which a given magnitude of rainfall may be exceeded in the future is based upon the study of the frequency with which it has been exceeded in the past in a probabilistic sense.
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Rakhecha, P.R., Singh, V.P. (2009). Statistical Analysis of Precipitation. In: Applied Hydrometeorology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9844-4_11
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