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<br />LIST OF FIGURES
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<br />Typical normalized 0.3. advanced design storm pattern with different
<br />b/td and c values for positive b 11
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<br />2 Rainfall depth-duration diagram for the United States (after U,S, Weather
<br />Bureau Technical Paper No, 40) 15
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<br />3 Standard rainfall intensity-duration curves for various ratios of I-hour to
<br />corresponding 24-hour rainfall depth 17
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<br />4 Relationships between standard storm parameters and the ratio of I-hour
<br />to corresponding 24-hour rainfall depth 19
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<br />5 Standard rainfall intensity-frequency relationship for 60-minute
<br />duration for the 34 cities studied . 21
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<br />6 Ten-year I-hour rainfall (inches) map (after U_S, Weather Bureau
<br />Technical Paper No, 40) 23
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<br />7 Ten-year 24-hour rainfall (inches) map (after U_S, Weather Bureau
<br />Technical Paper No, 40) , , 24
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<br />8 One hundred-year I-hour rainfall (inches) map (after U,S_ Weather
<br />Bureau Technical Paper No, 40) _ _ ' 25
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<br />9 Delineation of six grass zones which are considered to be planted with
<br />Bermuda grass, Crested wheat grass, Fescue grass, Kentucky blue grass,
<br />Red top grass, and Rye grass on highway sideslopes _ 31
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<br />10 Typical hyetograph occurred on June 10, 1941, at Riesel, Texas, and its
<br />best-fitted counterpart. , _ 34
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<br />II Typical hyetograph occurred on September 9,1963, at Hastings,
<br />Nebraska, and its best-fitted counterpart , . , 35
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<br />12 Typical hyetograph occurred on August 31, 1961, at Oxford,
<br />Mississippi, and its best-fitted counterpart 36
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<br />13 Typical hyetograph occurred on June 19, 1946, at Lafayette, Indiana,
<br />and its best-fitted counterpart 37
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<br />14 Typical hyetograph occurred on April 1, 1937, at Placerville,
<br />California, and its best-fitted counterpart, ' , 38
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<br />15 Typical hyetograph occurred on September 12, 1938, at Cohocton,
<br />New York, and its best-fitted counterpart, ' . 39
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<br />16 Typical hyetograph occurred on September 5, 1972, at gage L-2 in
<br />Layton, Utah, and its best-fitted counterpart ' _ 40
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