**Meet the editors**

Theodore Hromadka, PhD, PH, PE, has an extensive scientific, engineering, expert witness, and litigation support experience. His frequently referenced scientific contributions to the Hydrologic, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences have been published in the peer-reviewed scientific literature including 26 books, over 400 scientific papers, and book chapters. His professional engineering

experience includes supervision and development of over 1500 engineering studies. He is currently a faculty at the West Point Military Academy and California State University, Fullerton.

Prasada Rao, PhD, is a professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, at California State University, Fullerton. His current research areas include Climatic Change, Surface and Subsurface flow modeling, and Computational Mathematics. He is also an Associate Director of the International Institute for Computational Engineering Mathematics.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Design Discharge 1**

**of Kerala 17** Shajimon K John

Chapter 1 **Design Rainfall in Engineering Applications with Focus on the**

Chapter 2 **Rainfall Pattern Analysis over India in Relation to the State**

Chapter 3 **Forecasting of Medium-term Rainfall Using Artificial Neural Networks: Case Studies from Eastern Australia 33**

Chapter 4 **Analysis of Storm Rainfall in Peninsular Malaysia Using Neyman‐Scott Rectangular Pulse Modeling 57**

Chapter 5 **Seasonal and Diurnal Variations of Vertical Profile of**

Chapter 6 **Geography of Udi Cuesta Contribution to Hydro-**

and Gideon O. Bamigboye

Rado Yendra, Abdul Aziz Jemain and Ibrahim Sulaiman Hanaish

**Precipitation over Indonesian Maritime Continent 71** Marzuki, Hiroyuki Hashiguchi, Mutya Vonnisa and Harmadi

**Meteorological Pattern of the South Eastern Nigeria 93** Ngene Ben Uchechukwu, Jonah C. Agunwamba, Imokhai T. Tenebe

Nejc Bezak, Mojca Šraj and Matjaž Mikoš

John Abbot and Jennifer Marohasy
