Abstract: Evidence from locations in the north central region of the United States indicates that a rainy spell is more likely to terminate after at least two wet days than after one wet day during early spring. However, the departure ...

Abstract: Procedures are developed to estimate the probability of occurrence for a given consecutive sequence of wet and dry days which begins with a specified day of the year. A good first approximation for such a probability can ...

Abstract: The gamma probability distribution, with a shape parameter that varies linearly with number of days in a wet period and a scale parameter independent of length of a wet period, is shown to provide an adequate model to ...