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The Regional Rainfall-Intensity Project is a U.S. contribution to the Middle East Regional Water Data Banks Project, Multilateral Working Group on Water Resources, Middle East Peace Process. The project developed 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 agreed to share data and expertise. The regional participating agencies include the: Israeli Hydrological Service, Israeli Meteorological Service, Israeli Soil Erosion Research Station, Jordanian Ministry of Water and Irrigation, Jordanian Meteorological Department, Palestinian Water Authority, and Palestinian Meteorological Office. Additional computer programming support was provided by the University of Central Florida (UCF). The project was established in 1999 and was completed in 2006 with publication of the final report "Application of Methods for Analysis of Rainfall Intensity in Areas of Israeli, Jordanian, and Palestinian Interest ".

Products developed during the project include a regional rainfall-intensity database structure, rainfall-intensity software (RAINDIGITIZER, RAINPLOT, and RAINSHARE), and an online manual to document use of the software. RAINDIGITIZER, RAINPLOT, and RAINSHARE are custom Visual Basic programs that represent a complete solution for digitizing, storing, analyzing, reporting, mapping, and sharing rainfall-intensity data. The source code was developed by the University of Central Florida (UCF) Department of Engineering Technology (www.cecs.ucf.edu), project staff from the Core Parties, and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) (www.usgs.gov). It is maintained as an open source resource by the Department of Engineering Technology, UCF and the International Water Resources Branch, USGS (Reston).