Project: |
Regional Water Data Banks - Rainfall Intensity |
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Leaders: |
Daniel J. Goode, djgoode@usgs.gov Chuck Parrett, cparrett@usgs.gov |
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Overview: | The USGS has conceptualized and implemented a variety of technical activities as part of the Regional Water Data Banks Project, a project of the Multilateral Working Group on Water Resources. One of these activities is the Rainfall-Intensity Databases Project, which began in 2000. A team of Israeli, Jordanian, and Palestinian experts from the participating agencies was assembled under the guidance of the USGS to develop, document, and populate a rainfall database and to develop a variety of analytic capabilities. The project has evolved and provided hands-on training in the use of the project database and analysis software known as RAINDIGITIZER and RAINPLOT. RAINDIGITIZER is a program used to digitize paper strip charts, enter and store the raw digitized (x,y) data in a relational database, and convert raw digitized data to meaningful time-depth data used in rainfall-intensity analyses. RAINPLOT is the program used to generate and retrieve maximum rainfall intensities from the database, and to perform comprehensive statistical analyses and customized graphing and reporting of these data. The EXACT web page (http://exact-me.org/ri) contains software downloads, a software user's manual, project information, and a description of Rain II--a second phase of the project. As the final debugging of the software developed by this activity is being completed, a Phase II activity (RAIN II) has been initiated. Phase II of the Rainfall Intensity project uses the RAINPLOT analysis and reporting software to support a joint analysis effort. After participants determine specific data analysis objectives, the RAINPLOT software is used to quality control, analyze, and report rainfall-intensity data for areas of Palestinian, Jordanian, and Israeli interest. |
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USGS Mission Tie In: |
The Core Parties requested the USGS to undertake this project, and the U.S. Department of State approved the concept and is providing political guidance and funding. The project supports U.S. foreign policy. It also contributes to the use of long-term datasets and interpretive products within the Middle East. The analytical tools developed as a result of this project are available on the web and can be utilized both by the USGS and by the general public. |
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Discipline: | Water | ||
Locations: | Israel, Jordan, and West Bank/Gaza | ||
Web Sites: | http://exact-me.org/ | ||
Partners: | Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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