Recent progress in satellite remote-sensing techniques for precipitation estimation, along with more accurate tropical rainfall measurements from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Microwave Imager (TMI) and precipitation radar (PR) instruments, have made it possible to monitor tropical rainfall diurnal patterns and their intensities from satellite information. One year (August 1998...

In this paper we investigate the choices involved in the tradeoff between a child’s labor outside of household work and their schooling hours from a sample of data from Ghana in the late 1980’s. While households are interviewed only once during the survey, the data were collected over an 11 month period for both the Northern and Southern regions of Ghana. Northern and Southern Ghana have rather...

[1] The interdecadal variability of summer precipitation in Beijing from 1724 to 2005 is analyzed using a filter, keeping the true trends at time series ends. A probability distribution, Pearson type III, was applied to the summer precipitation series to estimate the probability of anomalous rainfall. This study includes the correlation between the interdecadal variations of the summer precipit...

A spatial characterization of mid-latitude mesoscale rain fields from C-band radar measurements is performed by means of a systematic analysis and modelling of convective raincell shapes. To this aim a large rainfall dataset, derived from an operational C-band dualpolarized radar, has been continuously collected from 1996 to 1999. The radar-derived rain fields consist of 1558 grids of 256×256 k...

Historical rainfall records at 32 gauges located in Southern Ontario, Canada were analyzed to assess if temporal changes design intensities ev…