CCM Exam Question 2 for Meteorologists: Due Friday 4 April 2008

Turn in: (a) hard copy (MS Word; (b) by email, HTML (choose, "File" "Save As" "Web or HTML document).

Eventually, Make short .ppt (due later in semester)

A homeowner in the town of Greenbrae (3 Corte Cayuga, 94904), in Marin County, California, is building a drainage system for her home that will be designed to handle the 1 hour 100-yr rainfall at the home site. In addition, the roof design is extremely sensitive to rainfall sustained over a 24 h period. Further, she would like to design a low irrigation landscaping system keyed to the average seasonal rainfall. Rainfall maps for Marin County indicate that the long term average seasonal rainfall at her house is around 36".

She has hired you to:

(a) Determine the range of seasonal rainfall amounts she can expect at the property most (67%) of the time;

(b) Determine the 100-yr 1 hour event at her site;

(c) Determine the 100-yr 24 hour event at her site.

Make sure that explanatory material is provided to the homeowner for each of your findings.