Russia Rainfall

Russia has many rainfall records published on the KNMI website, but many of the published records only commence in the 1930s or 1960s.  Using monthly rainfall data available on the website of KNMI (the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute), I have analysed the annual rainfalls at 11 stations in Russia.

The Russia analysis is for 11 stations.   These stations have available records commencing between 1892 and 1967 and all have data up to 2018.  Many of the records missing data during the past three decades.   These 11 stations each have between 37 and 88 years of complete annual data.

The following are plots of the annual (Jan-Dec) rainfalls at each of the 11 stations.   The red line is of the five-year average rainfall.

 

Murmansk  1936-2017

 

Moscow 1967-2017

 

Ostrov Vize 1953-2016

 

Dixon Island 1971-2017

 

Hanty-Mansijsk  1897-2017

 

Bor  1936-2017

 

Olenyok 1969-2017

 

Cokurdah 1945-2011

 

Anadyr  1967-2017

 

Mogoca  1912-2016

 

Imeni Poliny Osipenko  1936-2017

 

 

Comments:

•  8 of the 11 stations had available data only since 1930s-1960s

•  Three of the 11 stations had very incomplete data over the past two decades

•  There are no abnormal trends in the annual rainfall.

 

 

Please let me know what you think of my analyses.    brigun@westnet.com.au

 

The Author:

  This article was written by Brian Gunter of Narooma, NSW, Australia. In his previous life Brian was an engineering hydrologist involved over many years in the analysis of rainfall and river flow data for the planning of water resources projects in Australia, Asia and Africa. In recent years he has been one of the Marine Rescue NSW (previously Royal Volunteer Coastal Patrol) volunteer weather observers who operate the Narooma station for the Bureau of Meteorology.