This study was conducted for fitting probabilistic models to data of rain storms. The intensity-duration-frequency relationships were established for 19 locations in Bahia State. Series with the annual maximum rainfall intensities for the durations of 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 120, 180, 240, 360, 720 and 1440 min were used. Significant differences were observed in the maximum rainfall intensity values among the studied stations. The models utilized were Gumbel, Log-Normal (with two and three parameters), Pearson and Log-Pearson III. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was used to analyze the correlation between the model results and the rainfall data. The Gumbel model presented the best results for each duration. The intensity-duration-frequency equations were obtained using the Gauss-Newton method for non linear regression.
intensity-duration-frequency equation; precipitation stations; probabilistic models
