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- Title
Multivariate Analysis of Joint Probability of Different Rainfall Frequencies Based on Copulas.
- Authors
Yang Wang; Chuanzhe Li; Jia Liu; Fuliang Yu; Qingtai Qiu; Jiyang Tian; Mengjie Zhang
- Abstract
The performance evaluation of a city's flood control system is essentially based on accurate storm designs, where a particular challenge is the development of the joint distributions of dependent rainfall variables. When it comes to the research design for consecutive rainfall, the analytical investigation is only focused on the maximum of consecutive rainfalls, and it does not consider the probabilistic relations between the first day of rainfall and the overall rainfall included in consecutive rainfall events. In this study, the copula method is used to separate the dependence structure of multi-day rainfall from its marginal distribution and analyse the different impacts of the dependence structure and marginal distribution on system performance. Three one-parameter Archimedean copulas, including the Clayton, Gumbel, and Frank families, are fitted and compared for different combinations of marginal distributions that cannot be rejected by statistical tests. The fitted copulas are used to generate rainfall events for a system performance analysis, including the conditional probability and design values for different return periods. The results obtained in this study highlight the importance of taking into account the dependence structure of one-day and multi-day rainfall in the context of storm design evaluations and reveal the different impacts of the dependence structure and the marginal distributions on the probability.
- Subjects
RAINFALL; MULTIVARIATE analysis; RAINFALL frequencies; FLOOD control; REGULATION of rivers
- Publication
Water (20734441), 2017, Vol 9, Issue 3, p198
- ISSN
2073-4441
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/w9030198