NTL Record

Title Local Design Storm: Volume 4. Tabulation of Sample Detail Results of Statistical Analysis
Record ID 47957
Personal Name
Creator
Cheng, Bih-Ling Monica; Yen, B. C.; Chow, Ven Te
Personal Name
Contributor
Woo, Dah-Cheng
Corporate Creator United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Offices of Research and Development
Corporate
Contributor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dept. of Civil Engineering
Publisher United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Offices of Research and Development
Publication Date 19830501
Language English
Abstract Recently developed improved methods for highway storm water drainage require information on the temporal distribution of rainfall (i.e., hyetograph) in addition to the average rain intensity. The triangular design hyetograph method is developed as a practical method to provide the local storm hyetograph for design of small highway drainage facilities. The method is based on the methods of moments, using and preserving the statistical mean of the first time moment of rainstorms. The method is proposed as a trade-off between theoretical sophistication and practical simplicity. A total of 293,946 rainstorms from the hourly precipitation data of 222 National Weather Service (NWS) stations and 5 to 60 minute data of 13 raingage stations of USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) were analyzed to provide the statistical values of the hyetograph parameters for the United States. The results of statistical analysis of the mean, standard deviation, and range of rainstorm parameters for each class of duration and depth range for each of the 235 stations are summarized in 3600 tables which are stored at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Results of two sample stations, one each from the NWS and ARS stations, are presented in 84 tables in this Volume IV.
Rosap ID dot:41865
Rosap URL https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/41865
TRT Terms Drainage; Statistical analysis; Hydrology; Design engineering
Geographical
Coverage
United States
TRIS Online
Accession No
381774
Contract Number DOT-FH-11-9666
Report Number FHWA-RD-82-066
Resource type Tech Report
URL https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/47000/47900/47957/FHWA-RD-82-66.pdf
Format PDF
Database NTL Digital Repository