NTL Record

Title Local Design Storm: Volume 3. User's Manual
Record ID 47959
Personal Name
Creator
Yen, B. C.; Chow, Ven Te; Cheng, Bih-Ling Monica; Cheng, Shui-Tuang
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. Federal Highway Administration. Office 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 stations and 5 to 60 minute data of 13 raingage stations of USDA Agricultural Research Service were analysed to provide the statistical values of the hyetograph parameters for the United States. In this Volume, a user's guide of the procedure to establish the local design hyetograph is presented. In addition, user's guides and listings of two computer programs to perform statistical analysis of rainfall moments for triangular hyetographs and for frequency analysis of rainfall depth-duration-return period relation are also presented.
Rosap ID dot:41864
Rosap URL https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/41864
TRT Terms Drainage; Hydrology; Rainfall
Geographical
Coverage
United States
TRIS Online
Accession No
381773
Contract Number DOT-FH-11-9666
Report Number FHWA-RD-82-065
Resource type Tech Report
URL https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/47000/47900/47959/FHWA-RD-82-65.pdf
Format PDF
Database NTL Digital Repository