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Lisø PhD Dissertation Manuscript - NTNU

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Frequency<br />

25<br />

20<br />

15<br />

10<br />

5<br />

0<br />

highest proportion of the annual precipitation total. We<br />

have estimated the total annual rainfall values to be 550,<br />

2050, 650 and 700 mm, respectively, for Oslo, Bergen,<br />

Trondheim and Tromsø.<br />

Multiplying directional rainfall values by the respective<br />

average wind speeds during rainfall events for each<br />

ARTICLE IN PRESS<br />

Bergen<br />

Moderate/heavy All types<br />

10 40 70 100 130 160 190 220 250 280 310 340<br />

Degrees from north<br />

Fig. 3. Relative frequencyof observations coded as moderate or heavyand observations coded as some form of rain vs. wind direction for the period<br />

1974–2003 at Bergen.<br />

mm/yr<br />

(a)<br />

mm/yr<br />

(b)<br />

mm/yr<br />

(c)<br />

mm/yr<br />

(d)<br />

50<br />

40<br />

30<br />

20<br />

10<br />

0<br />

500<br />

250<br />

0<br />

90<br />

60<br />

30<br />

0<br />

150<br />

100<br />

50<br />

0<br />

J.P. Rydock et al. / Building and Environment 40 (2005) 1450–1458 1455<br />

Oslo<br />

10 40 70 100 130 160 190 220 250 280 310 340<br />

Degrees from north<br />

Bergen<br />

10 40 70 100 130 160 190 220 250 280 310 340<br />

Degrees from north<br />

Trondheim<br />

10 40 70 100 130 160 190 220 250 280 310 340<br />

Degrees from north<br />

Tromsø<br />

10 40 70 100 130 160 190 220 250 280 310 340<br />

Degrees from north<br />

Fig. 4. Driving rain (in mm/yr) vs. wind direction for the period 1974–2003 for (a) Bergen, (b) Trondheim, (c) Oslo and (d) Tromsø.<br />

wind direction yielded a measure of the directional<br />

driving rain amount at each station. This methodology<br />

is almost identical to that used byLacyin his pioneering<br />

articles on driving rain in the 1960s [6,7]. He used the<br />

product of total annual precipitation and average wind<br />

speed (not average wind speed during rainfall, which

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