Project:

Regional Water Data Banks - Rainfall Intensity

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.