© 2019, IJSRMS All Rights Reserved 114 International Journal of Scientific Research in _______________________________ Research Paper . Multidisciplinary Studies E-ISSN: 2454-9312 Vol.5, Issue.8, pp.114-132, August (2019) P-ISSN: 2454-6143 Rainfall Analysis for Modelling of IDF Curves for Bangalore Rural, Karnataka Mohammed Badiuddin Parvez 1 *, M Inayathulla 2 1,2 Dept. of Civil Engineering, UVCE, Bangalore University, Bangalore ,Karnataka, India Corresponding Author: parvezuvce@gmail.com Tel.: +919060506390 Available online at: www.isroset.org Received: 15/Aug/2019, Accepted: 28/Aug/2019, Online: 31/Aug/2019 Abstract- Changes in the hydrologic cycle due to increase in greenhouse gases cause variations in intensity, duration, and frequency of precipitation events. Quantifying the potential effects of climate change and adapting to them is one way to reduce urban vulnerability. Since rainfall characteristics are often used to design water structures, reviewing and updating rainfall characteristics (i.e., Intensity –Duration–Frequency (IDF) curves) for future climate scenarios is necessary. The present study regards the evaluation of the IDF curves for Four raingauge stations of Bangalore rural : Anugondanahalli, Devanahally, Doddabalapura and Hoskote. Starting from daily rainfall observed data, to define the IDF curves and the extreme values in a smaller time window (2, 5, 10, 15, 30, 60, 120, 720, 1440 minutes), disaggregation techniques of the collected data have been used, in order to generate a synthetic sequence of rainfall, with statistical properties similar to the recorded data. Then, the rainfall pattern of the Four raingauge stations was analyzed and IDF curves were evaluated. Key words: Gumbel Distribution, Intensity Duration Frequency (IDF), Log Normal Distribution, Normal Distribution, Pearson Type III Distribution, Log Pearson Type III Distribution Rainfall Duration, Return Period, Rainfall Intensity. I. INTRODUCTION Degradation of water quality, property damage and potential loss of life due to flooding is caused by extreme rainfall events. Historic rainfall event statistics (in terms of intensity, duration, and return period) are used to design flood protection structures, and many other civil engineering structures involving hydrologic flows. Since rainfall characteristics are often used to design water structures, reviewing and updating rainfall characteristics (i.e., Intensity–Duration–Frequency (IDF) curves) for future climate scenarios is necessary. A lot of studies, especially recently, have been developed to analyze the factors for assessment, adaptation and mitigation of climate change, and to enhance and sharpen the disaster management for the many and various stakeholders. IDF stands for Intensity-Duration-Frequency. Rainfall intensity is defined as the ratio of the total amount of rain (rainfall depth) falling during a given period to the duration of the period It is expressed in depth units per unit time, usually as mm per hour . The period of time over which rainfall is measured is called duration. The number of times, during a specified period of years, that precipitation of a certain magnitude or greater occurs or will occur at a station is called frequency. (FAO, 2012). The relation between rainfall and runoff is influenced by various storm and basin characteristics. Because of these complexities and the frequent paucity of adequate runoff data, many approximate formulae have been developed to relate rainfall and runoff. The earliest of these formulae were usually empirical statements. Section I contains the IDF information, Section II contain the Study Area and methodology adopted, Section III contain the result and discussions, Section IV concludes research work with future directions. II. MATERIALS AND METHODS A. Study Area The Study Area is located be tween Latitude 12º57′40.47′′ N to 13º29′30.3′′ N and 77º10′30.3′′ E to 77º57′22.9′′ E Longitude. The average mean daily temperature varies from 14 to 35 0 C respectively. Four Raingauges Stations were considered as shown in Figure 1.