HEC-HMS
The US Army Corps standard for rainfall-runoff modelling — event and continuous simulation, free to use.
Browser-based rainfall frequency analysis — fit and rank 11 distributions with confidence intervals.
by FAMS Design Solutions
Frequency Explorer, from FAMS Design Solutions, performs rainfall frequency analysis in the browser: upload an annual-maximum series, and it fits eleven candidate distributions — GEV, Gumbel, Log-Pearson III, Log-Normal, Log-Logistic, TCEV and others — ranks them by goodness-of-fit (Kolmogorov-Smirnov, chi-square), and reports design rainfall estimates with 95% confidence bounds.
Where national IDF services exist (NOAA Atlas 14, the ARR Data Hub) they remain the compliance answer; this tool earns its place for everywhere else — gauge-based frequency work in regions without an official service, or as an independent check with uncertainty bounds included. Free to use at the time of listing.
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The US Army Corps standard for rainfall-runoff modelling — event and continuous simulation, free to use.
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