PARAMETER TRANSFERABILITY FOR A DAILY RAINFALL DISAGGREGATION MODEL

The model for disaggregating daily rainfall into sequences of individual showers presented by Hershenhorn and Woolhiser is modified and applied to data from two midwestern stations in the U.S.A. Statistical tests indicate that number of showers, the start times, shower depths, and shower durations of simulated sequences compare favorably with observed sequences, and that the disaggregation model parameters identified at one gage provide a satisfactory fit for three test stations up to 470 km away, provided the test stations are in the same climatological region. © 1990.