Briefly describe the three properties of rainfall that primarily concern highway engineers.

What will be an ideal response?


Highway engineers are primarily concerned with three properties of rainfall:
intensity, duration, and frequency. The rate of fall (typically expressed in inches
per hour) is known as intensity. The length of time for a given intensity is known
as duration. The probable number of years that will elapse before a given
combination of intensity and duration will be repeated is known as frequency.

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