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- Title
Extreme value statistical analysis of meteorological parameters observed at Kudankulam site during 2004-2014.
- Authors
Prabhu, Jayasudha; George, Thomas; Vijayakumar, B.; Ravi, P. M.
- Abstract
For any civil engineering work, knowledge of extreme weather conditions at the site of interest is essentially required to design engineering structure that can withstand such extreme weather stresses. This paper presents an analysis of extreme values of meteorological parameters like temperature, estimated wind gust at 10 m height, wind speed, daily, monthly, and annual rainfall for 2004-2014. The yearly variations of these meteorological parameters were subjected to distribution analysis. Various distribution function parameters for each variable are determined. Extreme values corresponding to return periods of 50 and 100 years are worked out. These studies carried out in Kudankulam provide an insight into the extreme values of the considered variables over a period, generally during the expected lifetime of the reactor units and help the designer to arrive at the design basis values of different parameters as regards the safety of the units.
- Subjects
CIVIL engineering &; the environment; ENGINEERING &; the environment; WEATHER; METEOROLOGY; ATMOSPHERIC sciences
- Publication
Radiation Protection & Environment, 2016, Vol 39, Issue 2, p107
- ISSN
0972-0464
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4103/0972-0464.190388