“…Examples of intensity-duration-frequency curves for a 10-year return period (1-9) and curve of the maximum observed precipitation (10). Location and source: 1 -Najran region, Saudi Arabia (Elsebaie, 2012); 2 -Uccle, Belgium (Van de Vyver, 2015); 3 -Naples, Italy (Rossi and Villani, 1994); 4 -Los Angeles, California (Wenzel, 1982); 5 -Pelotas, Brazil (Damé et al, 2016); 6 -New York (Wenzel, 1982); 7 -Hamada, Japan (Iida, 2004); 8 -Selangor, Malaysia (Chang et al, 2015); 9 -Sylhet, Bangladesh (Rasel and Hossain, 2015); 10 -greatest known observed point rainfall (Brutsaert, 2005).…”