Research Article

Sources of Forecast Errors for Rainstorms in the South China Monsoon Region

Table 1

Details of the cases used, including the time period, distribution, and cumulative amount of precipitation.

CasePrecipitation periodPrecipitation distributionMaximum site precipitation (mm)Measured cumulative precipitation (mm)

12008.6.8(00 : 00)–6.9(00 : 00)Central and western south China164.9582967.4
22008.6.11(00 : 00)–6.13(00 : 00)Central and eastern south China297.9698194.2
32010.5.31(00 : 00)–6.2(00 : 00)Central south China87.0983323.4
42011.6.28(00 : 00)–6.30(00 : 00)Central and southern south China448.5506162
52011.7.15(00 : 00)–7.17(00 : 00)Eastern south China134.2477601.5
62013.5.14(00 : 00)–5.17(00 : 00)Central and eastern south China195.3705305.8
72013.7.26(00 : 00)–7.28(00 : 00)Southern south China189.3567458.6
82014.5.21(12 : 00)–5.23(12 : 00)Eastern south China115.7775429.6
92015.5.16(00 : 00)–5.17(00 : 00)Southern and eastern south China140.3155520.7
102015.5.22(00 : 00)–5.23(00 : 00)Southern south China62.9470785.5
112016.6.14(00 : 00)–6.15(00 : 00)Eastern south China68.7238642
122017.5.14(00 : 00)–5.16(00 : 00)Southeast of south China106.5277531.8
132017.6.4(00 : 00)–6.6(00 : 00)Northeast of south China106.7293025.2
142017.7.2(00 : 00)–7.4(00 : 00)Southern south China246.2294511.5
152018.4.15(00 : 00)–4.17(00 : 00)Southern and eastern south China45559.25
162018.5.7(00 : 00)–5.8(00 : 00)Southern and eastern south China115.1106109.9
172018.5.9(00 : 00)–5.10(00 : 00)Central south China94.492764.41
182019.4.11(00 : 00)–4.12(12 : 00)Southeast of south China87.882066.8
192019.4.23(12 : 00)–4.25(00 : 00)Central and eastern south China43.986832.09