Statistical modeling of extreme rainfall processes in the context of climate change
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Abstract
The occurrence of extreme storms is a critical consideration in the design and management of a large number of water-resource projects. In current engineering practice, the estimation of extreme rainfalls is accomplished based on statistical frequency analysis of maximum precipitation data. The objective of this frequency analysis is hence to estimate the maximum amount of precipitation falling at a given point for a specified duration and return period. Results of precipitation frequency analysis are often summarized by "intensity-duration-frequency" (IDF) relationships for a given site. However, traditional methods in the development of IDF relations have two major limitations. Firstly, these existing methods were not able to account for the extreme rainfall characteristics over different time scales. Secondly, these traditional methods cannot take into account the potential impacts of climate variability and climate change. Therefore, the main objective of the present study is to propose an improved method for extreme rainfall estimation that could overcome these limitations. The proposed method was based on the scale-invariance GEV distribution and the statistical downscaling procedure to construct the IDF relations in the context of climate change. The Non-Central Moment method was used for the estimation of the three parameters of the GEV. Results of a numerical application using Annual Maximum Precipitation (AMP) data from a network of 14 rain-gauge stations in South Korea has indicated the feasibility and accuracy of the suggested method. In particular, the observed AMP series displayed a simple scaling behaviour. In addition, the linkages between global climate variables given by two Global Climate Models (GCMs) (one from Environment Canada and one from the UK Hadley Centre) and the local extreme rainfall characteristics have been successfully established for predicting the resulting changes of the IDF relations under different climate change scenarios A2, A1B, and B2. It was found that the IDF relations for future periods (2020's, 2050's, and 2080's) showed increasing or decreasing trends depending on the GCM used and the climate scenario considered.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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