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Journal Article

Author
McIllwraith, J. F.
Title
Intensity, frequency, and distribution of heavy rainfall in N.S.W.
In
Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia
Imprint
vol. 16, no. 12, Dec 1944, pp. 240-252
Description

This paper, No.863, originated in the Sydney Division of The Institution, and is to be presented before a joint meeting of the Civil Engineering, and the Local Government and Highway Engineering Branches of the Division.
The author, J. F. McIllwraith, BE AMIEAust, is an Engineering Surveyor in the Service of the Metropolitan Water, Sewerage and Drainage Board, Sydney

This paper includes a survey of historic rainfall intensity records across Australia, and a comprehensive bibliography.


See also Discussions and communications:
JIEA v.17 n.6 Jun 1945 p.124-129;
JIEA v.17 n.9 Sep 1945 p.193

[This paper was awarded the 1946 W. H. Warren Memorial Prize]

Abstract

With the development of drainage and hydraulic engineering during recent years, the old attitude of basing design on the experience and perhaps prejudice of the designer, and of viewing periodic flooding of structures with oriental fatalism, is fast being replaced by a statistical method of weighing the probable cost of a structure, based on different frequencies of flooding, against the probable damage to life and property resulting therefrom. In the author's paper, "The Prediction of the Maximum Rainfall Intensity Equation," published in the Commonwealth Engineer, of 2nd December, 1940, some of the factors affecting rainfall were analysed, and an endeavour made to formulate a rainfall intensity equation for storms of short duration. Since the publication of this paper, data from several very valuable investigations has come to the author's notice from the United States of America. These researches, together with statistical weather records from various sources, have enabled him to revise and extend his previous work and to analyse the distribution of intense rainfall. The results of these investigations are incorporated in this paper.

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  • McIllwraith, J. F. (Friend, J. A.), 'Intensity, frequency, and distribution of heavy rainfall in N. S. W. (Discussions and communications)', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 17 (9) (1945), 193. Details
  • McIllwraith, J. F. (Nimmo, W. H. R.; Mott, C. B.; Miller, A. W.; Waitt, F. W. F.), 'Intensity, frequency, and distribution of heavy rainfall in N. S. W. (Discussions and communications)', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 17 (6) (1945), 124-129. Details

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