Climate data (monthly mean temperature (°C), relative humidity, total rainfall (mm), sum of sunshine (h), and wind velocity (m/s) were provided by the Meteorological Bureau of Suzhou at longitude 120°6' east and latitude 31°3' north, which is located 8 km away from the Children's Hospital of Soochow University.
In this last procedure as we are only interested in rare extremes, low to medium values of rainfall depth were neglected leaving a small number of L days of ranked daily maxima in each set per year, whose sum typically comprises about 50% of each annual rainfall total.
For example, the monthly average maximum temperature was calculated by averaging the daily maximum temperature for a month, and the total rainfall was calculated by summing the amount of rainfall measured for the whole month.
Data from all sources were summarised by year and month, with averages for all variables except rainfall, which was summed.
Monthly rainfall data were summed over the 6 months prior to delivery to represent rainfall exposure during the 2nd and 3rd trimesters.
The raster maps showing mean monthly temperature (or rainfall) from January 2002 to December 2005 were summed and divided by 48 resulting in a map of the mean annual temperature (or rainfall) for Great Britain for the period 2002 to 2005.
The sum of rainfall and snowmelt from the snow routine enters the soil moisture routine, which calculates the changes in soil moisture storage as the difference between effective precipitation (rain or snowmelt), P (mm d−1), and actual evapotranspiration, ETA (mm d−1).
The rate of RSV infection was highestduring thewinter and early spring seasons; however, infection was negatively associated with monthly mean temperature (rs = −0.821, P < 0.0001), total rainfall (rs = −0.406, P = 0.002), and sum of sunshine (rs = −0.386, P = 0.001).
From the above daily P Q data, derive two-daily, three-daily, four-daily and so on P Q series, by summing the rainfall and corresponding runoff values for respective durations.
To investigate the presence of sudden changes in rainfall time-series, the cumulative sum method and a Bayesian multiple change point detection procedure were applied to annual rainfall series.
