Mean Daily Rainfall Intensity and Number of Rain Days Over Tanzania
- 1 October 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography
- Vol. 54 (3) , 369-375
- https://doi.org/10.1080/04353676.1972.11879874
Abstract
The significance of rainfall characteristics in relation to a number of topics, particularly soil erosion, is discussed. Average daily rainfall intensity and numbers of rain days for four months are presented to serve both as background material for more detailed studies and also to suggest areas where further work may be worthwhile. With the exception of April, average monthly rainfalls are associated more with numbers of rain- days than with daily rainfall intensity. Considerable spatial variations in daily rainfall intensity and numbers of rain days exist. The results indicate that careful selection of rainfall stations for analysis is necessary and that caution is needed in generalising from detailed analyses to a wider area.Keywords
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- Some effects of raindrops and surface‐flow on soil erosion and infiltrationEOS, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 1945