On the Conditional Distribution of Daily Precipitation Amounts

Open Access

1 September 1980

journal article
Published by American Meteorological Society in Monthly Weather Review

Vol. 108 (9) , 1462-1464
https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(1980)108<1462:otcdod>2.0.co;2

Abstract

Possible conditional dependence of the distribution of daily precipitation amounts on the occurrence of precipitation on the preceding day is examined. Test results based on 25 years of data at 30 stations in the conterminous United States show that such dependence exists only in the winter season over the Pacific Northwest.

Keywords

WINTER
CONDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION
NORTHWEST
PRECEDING
CONTERMINOUS
DAILY PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS
DISTRIBUTION OF DAILY
AMOUNTS POSSIBLE CONDITIONAL