Review and testing analysis of Moupfouma rain rate model for Southern India

Abstract

Suitability of the analytical model by Moupfouma in modeling the one-minute rain rate distributions at tropical stations of Thiruvananthapuram and Gadanki is studied. The Climatic dependent parameters of the model governing the slope of the one-minute rain rate distributions are acclimatized and validated. The paper also presents rain rate distributions for Thiruvananthapuram and Gadanki. Performance of the model with newly refined climatic dependent parameters is assessed. The Moupfouma model is observed to model the one minute rain rate distributions with a maximum percentage relative error of 14% at 0.001% of time, and with approximately zero relative error at 0.01% of time in an average year. The climatic dependent parameters governing the slope of one-minute rain rate distributions are proposed for Southern India.