Total rain accumulation and rain-rate analysis for small tropical Pacific islands: a case study of Suva, Fiji

✍ Scribed by Vickal V. Kumar; Ravinesh C. Deo; Visagaperuman Ramachandran

• Book ID: 101650474
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 281 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1530-261X
• DOI: 10.1002/asl.131

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Rain‐rate analyses using hourly data from 1990 to 2002 predict rain occurrence for ∼15% of the year while minute data for the period Apr '02–Mar '03 resolve rain‐rate more accurately and show rain occurrence of ∼2% of the year. It is estimated that <1% of the rain at the site is mainly convective. Rainfall analysis confirms its dependence on El Niño Southern Oscillation and convergence zones. Copyright © 2006 Royal Meteorological Society