Fletcher, Joel E., A. Leon Huber, Eugene E. Farmer, Keith R. McLaughlin, 

 John Rector, and Larry J. Schmidt. 



1 98 1 . Precipitation characteristics of summer storms at Straight Canyon 

 barometer watershed, Utah. USDA For. Serv. Res. Pap. INT-274, 1 1 p. 

 Intermt. For. and Range Exp. Stn., Ogden, Utah 84401. 



Straight Canyon barometer watershed was divided into three similar 

 precipitation intensity zones. The 50-year precipitation intensity (2-minute 

 duration) increased from about 4 in (1 02 mm) per hour on zone 1, to about 13 

 in (330 mm) per hour on zone 3. Daily precipitation depths were revised, with 

 zone 3 receiving 91.97 in (50 mm) and zone 1, 2.08 in (53 mm). Rainfall 

 erosivity (R) increased from 1 2.5 hundreds of foot-tons per acre-inch (3.375 

 hundreds of t/ha-cm) in zone 1 , to 1 6.7 hundreds of foot-tons per acre-inch 

 (4.51 hundreds of t/ha-cm) in zone 3. 



KEYWORDS: mountain precipitation, rainfall intensity, rainfall erosivity, 

 rainfall time, rainfall duration 



