Statistics Colloquium: Aspects of modelling area-averaged rainfall

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Author: Ruth Croxford
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 1989 19:43

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Colloquium, Department of Statistics, University of Toronto

Topic:	   Aspects of modelling area-averaged rainfall
Speaker:   Nancy Reid, University of Toronto
Date:	   Thursday, October 5, 1989     4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Place:	   Room 1085, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George St., U. of Toronto
Abstract:

Measuring rainfall over tropical regions is important for global climate
studies, yet difficult, as much of the tropics is covered by ocean.  A
project to measure tropical rainfall from space is being studied at NASA,
and is discussed in Simpson et al. (1988) and Bell and Reid (1989).  One
important feature of the satellite measurements is that they will record
rainfall amounts averaged over relatively large areas.  Of particular
interest is how much the rainfall characteristics will be damped by this
averaging process.  This talk will consider estimating the diurnal cycle
of rainfall rate from area-averaged data, and the effect of area averaging
on model characteristics, using the Cox and Isham (1988) space-time model.
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Coffee and tea will be served in the De Lury Lounge (SS6006) at 3:30 p.m.

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