THE city of Chennai in southern India, the country's fourth largest, gets a reasonable amount of rainfall during the months of the monsoon, sufficient in theory to provide enough water for its growing population.
In its present form calculation of erosivity values by the EI method are likely to be reasonable for most rainfall regimes.
In drier areas, outbreaks of malaria have been predicted with reasonable accuracy by mapping rainfall.
However, the simplified biology behind such models can incorporate the fundamental mechanisms of temperature-dependent mortality of adult mosquitoes and development characteristics of larvae, which could result in a reasonable model for the rainfall-dependent survival of immature vector stages and a means of capturing the effects of extreme rainfall on existing breeding sites.
The model results show reasonable skill in simulating the rainfall over the study region for the current climate.
The alternative method developed by R. H. Kraft (Pfost 2000) is an empirical relationship, 100 divided by the forward speed of the hurricane (knots), which, for modern storms, provides a reasonable estimate of the resulting rainfall amount in inches.
REMO simulates a reasonable climatological pattern of annual rainfall in Africa (Paeth et al. 2009).
Again, the exact timing for this N e estimate is not known, but assuming a continuing decline in residual efficacy of the carbamate insecticide, combined with the ongoing rainfall, it is reasonable to suspect that N e was larger toward the end of this interval.
These researchers have the goal of developing a more reasonable landslide model to predict rainfall-induced landslides in order to reduce loss of human life and property.
At present, there are reasonable methods to fill in missing rainfall data (Gommes and Gobel 2013), and to calibrate new modern weather stations with older data.
