Abstract: Normal annual rainfalls (means and medians) for the period 1910?75 are estimated for islands in the central equatorial Pacific. Ridge regression, with an empirically determined bias constant, is used to establish the ...

Abstract: In this paper ridge regression is introduced as a technique for extrapolating long-period normal rainfalls from short records. The data used are the annual totals for selected stations on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. It has ...

Abstract: Estimates of areal- and time-averaged convective precipitation derived from geostationary satellite imagery using a simple thresholding technique are presented. The estimates are based on measurements of the monthly mean ...

Abstract: Three years of three-hourly infrared satellite data from the American geostationary satellites were used to determine the large-scale spatial and temporal variations in the diurnal cycle of tropical convective precipitation. ...