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“Storm precipitation analysis in Dallas County”
“GIS in Water Resources”
by Gonzalo E. Espinoza
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Introduction• Design Hydrologic
systems▫ Drainage▫ Hydraulic Structures
• Nextrad (NOAA)▫ High Resolution Doppler
weather radars.▫ Source of Daily and
Hourly data.• GIS
▫ Data Acquisition▫ Data Processing▫ Results
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Data Acquisition• 13 years
▫ 1997 - 2009• 147 Virtual Stations• Daily Data (147)
▫ 697,500• Hourly Data (5)
▫ 569,00
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Precipitation: Raw Data
Daily Hourly
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Data Processing• Export table
HydroDesktop• Add Table ArcGIS• Project x,y• Time Enabled bar• Thiessen Polygons Tool• Mean Center
• Maximum Series▫ Daily▫ Hourly
• Probability Distribution• i-d-T and p-d-T curves
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https://webspace.utexas.edu/gee272/www/Index_files/GIS/pMovie.wmv
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Maximum Series
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Probability Distributions
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Precipitation DistributionDaily Data Hourly Data
• 147 Stations• AAP = 33.76 inches• Uniform
• 5 Stations• AAP = 34.20 • South East
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Results• 98.7% AAP• Same Mean /
Different distribution
• Representative values of precipitation
• In order to compare, select the same stations
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Conclusions•Derived Data
▫Representative▫Smaller Extrapolated Area
•Computational Time▫Downloading, Processing and Projecting▫IT fast development
•HydroDesktop▫Powerful Tool▫Sometime Crashes (Beta Version)
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