TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF THE PHILIPPINES

938 Aurora Boulevard, Cubao, Quezon City

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE

Civil Engineering Department

CE 410
HYDROLOGY

PRACTICAL COURSE #2

DETERMINATION OF MEAN PRECIPITATION USING ARETHMETIC METHOD,

THIESSEN POLYGON METHOD, ISOHYETAL METHOD, AND OTHER METHOD

SUBMITTED BY:
Alcantara, John Floren C.

SUBMITTED TO:
ENGR. John Pepard Rinchon
Instructor
July 12,2017
 Tagum-Libuganon River Basin (TLRB) has an area of 2,374
km2 which covers the provinces of Davao del Norte and Agusan
del Sur.
 This River is the longest river in the river basin approximately
175.03 kilometers which meanders from the mountains of
Kapalong, Davao del Norte and Loreto, Agusan del Sur down to
Tagum River at Pagsabangan, Tagum City. It traverses the
Municipalities of Kapalong, Asuncion and Sto. Tomas. This river
is utilized for domestic purposes such as bathing, washing
clothes and an alternative way to transport people and goods. It
is also a source of irrigation water to Mabantao Dam and
Mamacao Kipaliko dam supplying the rice fields found in the
Municipality of Kapalong. There are several sand and gravel
extraction activities on this river due to its richness and
abundance supply particularly in the downstream Libuganon
River.
 LOCATION OF GAUGES

PAGASA has recently conducted ground breaking for the construction

of Meteorological Station capable of providing flood forecasting and
warnings at the Provincial Government Center of Davao del Norte in
Mankilam, Tagum City. (6) rainfall gauges in (blue) and ten (10)
automatic water level gauges (yellow) as indicatively shown.
Rainfall pattern varies from month to month as seen in figure above, It
shows that in a year, the months of May, September and October has a
high amount of precipitation not less than 200 mm per month while the
driest month in a year falls under the month of April.

The data given below is from year 2011 only. Where it measures in
(mm)
Arithmetic Mean Method

223mm

245mm

255mm

260mm

Data from pag-asa year 2012 july (DOTS REPRESENT STATION)

Arithmetic equation:

Solution:

Pm=(223+245+255+260)/4

Pm=245.75
Theissen Polygon Method
Spline Method(Computer Calculated method)

A spline function is a polynomial function which passes through all the

gage point values and which is smoothed so that there are not so many
peaks and pits as in the inverse distance weighting method. The
"roughness" of the surface is reduced by the action of forming a
polynomial function through the data points.

The procedure is quite similar to that for inverse distance weighting.

Arc: grid
Grid: setcell .1
Grid: precspl = spline ( gages, prec )
Running ... 100%
Grid: display 9999
Grid: mape precspl
Grid: gridpaint precspl

you can add the theme precspl.

Grid: mnspl = zonalmean (borgrid, precspl)

Percentage of Cells Processed:100%
Grid: Describe mnidw
Description of Grid / / /MNIDW
Cell Size = 0.100 Data Type: Floating Point
Number of Rows = 151
Number of Columns = 171

BOUNDARY STATISTICS

Xmin = -10.050 Minimum Value = 70.572

Xmax = 7.050 Maximum Value = 70.572
Ymin = -10.050 Mean 70.572
Ymax = 5.050 Standard Deviation = 0.000

NO COORDINATE SYSTEM DEFINED

The mean precipitation by this method is 70.57 mm.

If you want to keep just the area within the border, type :
Grid: intspl = con ( borgrid > 0 , precspl )
Running ... 100%

Resources:

https://dream.upd.edu.ph/assets/Publications/UP-DREAM-River-
Reports/FMC/DREAM-Flood-Forecasting-and-Flood-Hazard-Mapping-for-
Tagum-River-Basin.pdf

http://now.minda.gov.ph/?page_id=72\

http://www.maphill.com/philippines/region-11/davao-del-norte/detailed-
maps/terrain-map/

TLRB draft final report main report 29aug14

Pag-asa