Rainplot USGS Web Site
The Project
The Middle East Regional Water Data Banks Project includes a sub-project sponsored by the United States known as “Regional Rainfall-Intensity Database Development”. It’s objective is to develop a regional database system to input, store, analyze, and report rainfall-intensity data providing scientists with the capability to evaluate rainfall intensities in areas of Israeli, Jordanian, and Palestinian (Core Party) interest. It is a joint, relational database and analysis system in which the three Core Parties agree to share data and expertise. The U.S. Geological Survey oversees the project and the regional participating agencies include the: Israeli Hydrological Service, Israeli Meteorological Service, Israeli Soil Erosion Research Station-Ministry of Agriculture,Jordanian Ministry of Water and Irrigation, Jordanian Meteorological Department, Palestinian Water Authority, and Palestinian Meteorological Office. The University of Central Florida has provided technical programming assistance. The project was established in September 1999, and Phase I is now complete. During Phase I, the regional database and analysis system was built and distributed to the Parties, and the Parties were trained in its use. Currently the Parties are in the process of preparing, digitizing, and entering strip chart data and analyzing selected rainfall-intensity data.
The Products:
RAINPLOT and RAINDIGITIZER are custom Visual Basic programs that represent a complete solution for digitizing, storing, analyzing, and reporting rainfall-intensity data. The programs were developed as part of the Middle East Water Data Banks (www.exact-me.org) project on Rainfall Intensity and are a U.S. contribution to the Multilateral Working Group on Water Resources, Middle East Peace Process. The source code was developed by the University of Central Florida Department of Engineering Technology (www.cecs.ucf.edu), the U.S. Geological Survey (www.usgs.gov), and project staff from the Middle East. It is maintained as an open source resource by the Department of Engineering Technology, University of Central Florida.
Links
Link to Installer: 27.6 MB msi file (9/24/2004)
Link to Documentation
Link to .EXE and Updates (must use Installer first)
Link to Source Code
Installation Information
On some machines the installation will stall at the registration on the msxml3.dll file. In this case it may be neceesary to download and install this directly from the microsoft site. The error will give a "msxml3 failed to register" error on installation and a "Runtime error ActiveX component failed to register" error on executing the program. To solve this go to the Microsoft download site for msxml3 service pack 2 http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/MSDN-FILES/027/001/772/msdncompositedoc.xml&frame=true and install the English version of the service pack. Instructions for installation are on the site. The msxml3 is also atuomatically installed upon installation of Internet Explorer 6. You can also install the file directly from the internet by clicking here for internet based install.