interamount

French translation: durée inter-averse (DIA)

07:56 Dec 17, 2018
English to French translations [Non-PRO]
Science - Meteorology / weather forecast
English term or phrase: interamount
The average time between a specific amount of rainfall (interamount time).
Jacek Sierakowski
Belgium
Local time: 20:01
French translation:durée inter-averse (DIA)
Explanation:
DIA seems to be translated by dry spell in the following abstract:
https://irsteadoc.irstea.fr/oa/PUB00001563-apport-modelisati...
so I may very well have understood the concept wrong, but in any case, this is what I found :
durée inter-averse
durée sèche
durée sèche inter-averse
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Elisabeth Richard
France
Local time: 20:01
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Merci.
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2 -1durée inter-averse (DIA)
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Définitions
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interamount time (IAT)
durée inter-averse (DIA)


Explanation:
DIA seems to be translated by dry spell in the following abstract:
https://irsteadoc.irstea.fr/oa/PUB00001563-apport-modelisati...
so I may very well have understood the concept wrong, but in any case, this is what I found :
durée inter-averse
durée sèche
durée sèche inter-averse


Example sentence(s):
  • On définit alors la variable NG qui est le nombre de périodes pluvieuses par événement pluvieux, et la variable DIA (en heure) qui est la durée sèche entre deux périodes pluvieuses.

    https://books.google.fr/books?id=4HLG4gfE_DYC&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=%22durée+sèche%22+averse&source=bl&ots=W1P_SXghzg&sig=bfDpRr_jg7dzv8aRcq
    https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/rseau/2000-v13-n4-rseau3302/705402ar.pdf
Elisabeth Richard
France
Local time: 20:01
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
Grading comment
Merci.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Tony M: I think that isn't quite the same thing — the s/term doesn't imply there is not rain at all, but simply how long before a certain rainfall occurs again (but it might not be totally dry in between)
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  -> Right. I couldn't find anything so subtle in French. So either there's no research on that aspect (odd considering they had 15 years to catch up), or I didn't persevere enough.

disagree  pascie: inter-averse n'est pas correct, cf. explication donnée.
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Reference: Définitions

Reference information:
DIA = durée séche entre deux périodes pluvieuses. A noter qu'une période pluvieuse comprend une ou plusieurs averses.

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