ruth@utstat.uucp (Ruth Croxford) (09/29/89)
Date: Thursday, October 5, 1989, 4:00 - 5:00 Place: Sidney Smith Hall, room 1085, 100 St George St, U of T Speaker:Nancy Reid Title: Aspects of modelling area-averaged rainfall Abstract: Measuring rainfall over tropical regions is important for global climate studies, yet difficult, as much of the tropics is covered by ocean. A project to measure tropical rainfall from space is being studied at NASA, and is discussed in Simpson et al. (1988) and Bell and Reid (1989). One important feature of the satellite measurements is that they will record rainfall amounts averaged over relatively large areas. Of particular interest is how much the rainfall characteristics will be damped by this averaging process. This talk will consider estimating the diurnal cycle of rainfall rate from area-averaged data, and the effect of area averaging on model characteristics, using the Cox and Isham (1988) space-time model.