Abstract: In recent years, the terms, ?once-in-a-century? and 100-year, have been attached to various rare and catastrophic events; recent examples are the rains associated with Hurricane Agnes and the 1972 Rapid City storm. The ...

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Abstract: This paper is concerned with the problem of estimating the probabilities of extreme-value 1-minute rainfalls when series of annual maxima for this duration are unavailable. A relationship between 1- and 5-min values from ...

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Abstract: The winter of 1977?78 may truly be called the ?winter of the pothole? because so many of them pockmarked the roads in the northeast quadrant of the United States. A major reason given for this deterioration of the roads ...

Abstract: Increasing attention has recently been given to many facets of climate change. This study focuses on a possible trend in extreme rainfalls in the past two decades based on the records of 135 National Weather Service stations ...

Abstract: Data from 1300 climatic summaries are used to construct a map for the conterminous United States showing the annual frequency of freeze-thaw cycles. Seasonal maps, as a percentage of the annual map, are based on a smaller ...