Return Periods: Ranking Annual Maxima with the Weibull Formula
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In this lesson
You rank 30 annual maximum daily rainfalls, estimate each one's exceedance probability and return period with the Weibull plotting position, and calculate the chance of a 30-year event during a 10-year project.
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Lessons in this course
- Daily to Monthly: AVERAGEIFS, SUMIFS & Wet Days Locked
- Temperature Anomalies vs the 1991–2020 Baseline Locked
- Linear Trend per Decade: SLOPE × 10 & a Trendline Locked
- Heating & Cooling Degree Days Locked
- Extremes: Hot Days, Tropical Nights & the Longest Dry Spell Locked
- Running Means & Decadal Averages for Noisy Precipitation Locked
- Return Periods: Ranking Annual Maxima with the Weibull Formula Locked
- Unit Conversions & a Simple Heat Index Locked