A Slice of Rain

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Abstract
The gamma distribution model is a useful one to describe distributions and many types of data and information. Applications can be made in every discipline. Among these are reliability. quality assurance and control disciplines. It is often used in hydrology and meteorology to describe water supply and precipitation distribution. It is known that the shape parameter of precipitation distributions tends to become larger when the periods over which precipitation is measured become larger. This paper provides the mathematical expression for the gamma distribution. illustrations of the physical representation of the model, and examples to illustrate the relationship of the parameters to increasing periods of time. This paper is written so that the younger scientists entering the disciplines of geophysics. oceanography. and/or meteorology/hydrology are introduced to some important aspects of the distribution and an application.

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