General introduction

Welcome to the Rainfall Data Modelling Portal. Here you can put your raingauge on the map, and produce elegant graphs and simple summary statistics which you can display on your own web site. You can also look at the results from other raingauges around the nation, and compare them with your own.

	Quick-start for first-time visitors: To view some data, click on the data map icon above. To contribute data from your own observations, click on the edit data icon above, register a new raingauge, and then add your last fourteen days' observations (including zeros if it did not rain); then return to this web site in 24 hours, and your data should be on the map!

You can use the icons at the top of the screen to quickly navigate through the following facilities that the site has to offer.

	Clicking this icon at any time will bring you back to this page.
	View a geographical map showing the locations of sites at which raingauge data are available. From here you can find out about the raingauge, and produce summary statistics of the data collected there.
	Create a raingauge record for your site (if you have not already done so!) and then upload/add/edit your collected data. The data will be accessible through the map, above.
	Read the friendly manual.

Furthermore, the three icons at the right of the frame allow you to change the personality of the web site.

	If you are a part-time weather-watcher, then this personality will provide you with an easy interface for uploading and then viewing your collected rainfall data.
	If you are interested in the mathematical modelling of rainfall data, then this personality will give you access to stochastic models and more sophisticated summary statistics.
	If you want to programmatically interface with the site (for example to provide direct rainfall input to ground water modelling systems), or if you want to extend the functionality of the site with your own models and/or analyses, you will find the instructions in the manual under this personality.