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Keith Musara1, Saralees Nadarajah2, Martin Wiegand3
1Department of Statistics, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe.
Abstract:
The first statistical analysis of maximum rainfall in Zimbabwe is provided. The data are from 103 stations spread across the different climatic regions of Zimbabwe. More than 90% of the stations had at least 50 years of data. The generalized extreme value distribution was fitted to maximum rainfall by the method of maximum likelihood. Probability plots, quantile plots and Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests showed that the generalized extreme value distribution provided an adequate fit for all stations. The vast majority of stations do not exhibit significant trends in rainfall. Twelve of the stations exhibit negative trends and three of the stations exhibit positive trends in rainfall. Estimates of return levels are given for 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 years.
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