Madras Agricultural Journal
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Prediction of maximum daily rainfall at Ootacamund

Abstract

                                The maximum daily rainfall data for 30 years (1967-1996) of Ootacamund, Nilgiris, recorded by India Meteorological Department were collected from the Directorate of Statistics, Chennai. Two programs were developed in BASIC for Lognormal and Gumbel distributions. The theroetical values so obtained were in close agreement with the observed data except at the highest rainfall for both the distributions.

Key words : Rainfall, Probability distribution

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