Madras Agricultural Journal
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Drought analysis for Ootacamund

Abstract

The daily rainfall data for the years 1967-1996 (30 years) of Ootacamund station, recorded by India Meteorological Department was collected from the Directorate of Statistics, Chennai. Drought analysis. was done and the expected monthly, seasonal and annual rainfall at different probability levels were found bout. The extent of normal, abnormal and drought years were 60.5 per cent 9.4 per cent and 30 per cent of the total months in 30 years of study.

Keywords: Rainfall, Normality, Abnormality, Drought

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