FREQUENCY OF PRECIPITATION IN THE HUMID PAMPA OF ARGENTINA

OLGA C. PENALBA AND FEDERICO A. ROBLEDO

SAVANNAH

Conferencia; 15th Conference on Applied Climatology; 2005

Climate is one of the most important limiting factors for agricultural production, in particular the precipitation. Agriculture is quite sensitive to the ordinary rhythm of the climate, being adjusted to make use of the seasonal changes. Failure of the expected seasonal rainfall or any other kind of disturbance of the rhythm leads to economic losses.The objectives of this work are to analyze the annual cycle of percentiles are the frequency of daily precipitation events throughout the year, with special interest in extreme and very heavy rainfall.