Water Resources Research Act Program

Details for Project ID 2017IL504S

Projected rainfall frequency for DuPage, Will and Lake Counties in Illinois

Institute: Illinois
USGS Grant Number: G17AP00030
Year Established: 2017 Start Date: 2016-12-16 End Date: 1970-01-01
Total Federal Funds: $59,881 Total Non-Federal Funds: Not available

Principal Investigators: James Angel

Project Summary: This research will focus on the development of a new rainfall frequency methodology using L-moments software and a weighted ensemble analysis. The resulting rainfall frequency analysis and confidence limits will be used to improve the rainfall amounts for return periods of 2 to 100 years for storm duration of 24 hours.