Daily weather generator with drought properties by copulas and standardized precipitation indices

Nien Ming Hong, Tsung Yu Lee*, Yun Ju Chen

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研究成果: 雜誌貢獻期刊論文同行評審

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摘要

The weather generator is an essential process in water resource assessment. Most weather generators focus on extreme rainfall events and rainfall amounts in a relatively short time scale. However, drought events often last more than several months, which conventional weather generators hardly generate. Conventional weather generators assume that monthly rainfalls are independent, skewing drought event generation. The purpose of this study is to construct a weather generator with improved drought property generation, combining with monthly rainfall data from conventional weather generators and characteristics of standardized precipitation indices. The proposed weather generators employs four drought parameters, namely starting month, duration, average, and minimum standardized precipitation indices, generated using a copula method. Analytical results show that the four parameters generated by the copula method are consistent with historical records. The proposed weather generator overcomes the limitation of conventional weather generators and can generate both rainfall and drought properties. The results also indicate that the assumption of monthly independence in drought generation can cause underestimated occurrence and duration of drought events. The proposed generator is also demonstrated for climate change assessment. The analytical results show that the uncertainties from the selection of weather generators are even higher than those from the selections of global circulation models while applying to water shortage assessment. We therefore suggest that weather generators should consider drought characteristics which can be measured using the standardized precipitation index to reduce the uncertainty.

原文英語
文章編號383
期刊Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
188
發行號6
DOIs
出版狀態已發佈 - 2016 6月 1

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 環境科學 (全部)
  • 污染
  • 管理、監督、政策法律

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