A cascade approach to continuous rainfall data generation at point locations   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Bellie Sivakumar  Ashish Sharma 《Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (SERRA)》2008,22(4):451-459

High-resolution temporal rainfall data sequences serve as inputs for a range of applications in planning, design and management of small (especially urban) water resources systems, including continuous flow simulation and evaluation of alternate policies for environmental impact assessment. However, such data are often not available, since their measurements are costly and time-consuming. One alternative to obtain high-resolution data is to try to derive them from available low-resolution information through a disaggregation procedure. This study evaluates a random cascade approach for generation of high-resolution rainfall data at a point location. The approach is based on the concept of scaling in rainfall, or, relating the properties associated with the rainfall process at one temporal scale to a finer-resolution scale. The procedure involves two steps: (1) identification of the presence of scaling behavior in the rainfall process; and (2) generation of synthetic data possessing same/similar scaling properties of the observed rainfall data. The scaling identification is made using a statistical moment scaling function, and the log–Poisson distribution is assumed to generate the synthetic rainfall data. The effectiveness of the approach is tested on the rainfall data observed at the Sydney Observatory Hill, Sydney, Australia. Rainfall data corresponding to four different successively doubled resolutions (daily, 12, 6, and 3 h) are studied, and disaggregation of data is attempted only between these successively doubled resolutions. The results indicate the presence of multi-scaling behavior in the rainfall data. The synthetic data generated using the log–Poisson distribution are found to exhibit scaling behaviors that match very well with that for the observed data. However, the results also indicate that fitting the scaling function alone does not necessarily mean reproducing the broader attributes that characterize the data. This observation clearly points out the extreme caution needed in the application of the existing methods for identification of scaling in rainfall, especially since such methods are also prevalent in studies of the emerging satellite observations and thus in the broader spectrum of hydrologic modeling.  相似文献   

Comparison of source parameters estimated in the frequency and time domains for seismic events at the Rudna copper mine,Poland   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

Bogusław Domański  Sławomir Jerzy Gibowicz 《Acta Geophysica》2008,56(2):324-343

Source parameters estimated in the frequency domain for 100 selected seismic events from the Rudna copper mine, with moment magnitude ranging from 1.4 to 3.6, were collected to study their scaling relations and to compare them with the parameters estimated in the time domain. The apparent stress and static stress drop, corrected for the limited bandwidth recording, increase slightly in a similar manner with increasing seismic moment. The ratio of apparent stress to static stress drop, a measure of radiation efficiency, is practically constant and its mean value is close to 0.1. For 37 seismic events, with moment magnitude between 1.9 and 3.4, source parameters were estimated in the time domain from relative source time functions, that displayed unilateral rupture propagation, and their rupture velocity could be estimated. It ranges from 0.23 to 0.80 of shear wave velocity and is almost independent of seismic moment. The fault length, estimated from the average source pulse width and rupture velocity, is clearly dependent on seismic moment and is smaller than the source radius estimated from the corner frequency on the average by about 25 percent. There is no correlation between the values of static stress drop estimated in the frequency and time domains, but the time domain stress drop is in general similar to that estimated in the frequency domain. The apparent stress increases with increasing rupture velocity, and the ratio of apparent stress to static stress drop seems also to depend on rupture velocity.  相似文献   

Use of a derived distribution approach for flood prediction in poorly gauged basins: A case study in Italy     

D. Bocchiola  R. Rosso 《Advances in water resources》2009

A derived distribution approach is developed for flood prediction in poorly gauged basins. This couples information on the expected storm scaling, condensed into Depth Duration Frequency curves, with soil abstractions modeled using Soil Conservation Service Curve Number method and hydrological response through Nash’s Instantaneous Unit Hydrograph. A simplified framework is given to evaluate critical duration for flood design. Antecedent moisture condition distribution is included. The method is tested on 16 poorly gauged Mediterranean watersheds in Tyrrhenian Liguria, North Western Italy, belonging to a homogeneous hydrological regions. The derived flood distribution is compared to the regional one, currently adopted for flood design. The evaluation of Curve Number is critical for peak flood evaluation and needs to be carefully carried out. This can be done including local Annual Flood Series data in the estimation of the derived distribution, so gathering the greatest available information. However, Curve Number influence decreases for the highest return periods. When considerable return periods are required for flood design and few years of data are available, the derived distribution provides more accurate estimates than the approach based on single site distribution fitting. A strategy based on data availability for application of the approach is then given. The proposed methodology contributes to the ongoing discussion concerning PUB (Prediction in Ungauged Basins) decade of the IAHS association and can be used by researchers and practitioners for those sites where no flood data, or only a few, are available, provided precipitation data and land use information are at hand.  相似文献   

粗粒土尺寸效应的离散元分析   总被引：3，自引：1，他引：2  

刘海涛  程晓辉 《岩土力学》2009,30(Z1):287-292

在土工试验中,粗粒土的力学性质需要考虑颗粒粒径R和试样尺寸L的影响,而利用离散元软件进行数值模拟时,模拟结果的准确性受到计算规模的影响,而计算规模由特征长度比值L/R控制。利用量纲分析理论,可以得到粗粒土数值模型的微观参数和宏观力学参数之间的相似关系,而影响粗粒土抗剪强度的无量纲参数组中,包含特征长度比值L/R。一系列数值三轴压缩试验表明：当L/R足够大（L/R >40）时,L/R对粗粒土抗剪强度没有影响;当L/R较小（L/R<30）时,由于边界摩擦作用,试样的抗剪强度会随着L/R的变化而有较大改变。文中也对离散元软件PFC2D/3D提供的伺服机制进行了讨论。  相似文献   

热脉冲技术测定树干液流研究进展   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

司建华  冯起  张小由  常宗强  席海洋 《冰川冻土》2007,29(3):475-481

热脉冲技术是生态生理学和森林水文学研究树木耗水最为常用的技术之一,该技术具有在树木自然生长状态基本不变的情况下实时测量树干木质部上升液流速度及流量,可以简捷准确地确定树冠蒸腾耗水量,同时具有经济可行,测定准确的优点.综述了热脉冲技术的发展历程,对热脉冲方法测定树干液流理论研究、树干液流时空变异性与环境因子的关系研究以及单株耗水向林分水平的尺度转换研究等方面作了较为详细的总结,据此,对热脉冲技术的发展做了展望.  相似文献   

西北地区45a来降水异常的时空变化及其标度特征   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

苏布达  王国杰  姜彤 《冰川冻土》2007,29(2):176-182

利用西北地区(73°~113°E,30°~50°N)157个气象站的1960—2004年日降水观测资料,通过非参数趋势检测和旋转主成分分析方法对年降水异常的时空特征进行研究.根据降水特征的差异,西北地区可以划分为西北东北部、东南部、西北部、西南部、中北部及中南部等6大区域.结果表明:西北地区降水自东南向西北逐步递减,降水变化趋势则是东南为负、西北为正,变化幅度东南大于西北.根据每个分区的降水序列标度特征,采用消除波动趋势分析方法,对6个分区45 a来降水时间序列所纪录的大气动力过程影响的时空差异进行分析,定量区分区域气候系统和局地要素对不同区域降水贡献的差异及其年代际变化.  相似文献   

Comparative ecophysiology of active zoobenthic filter feeding, essence of current knowledge     

H. U. Riisgrd  P. S. Larsen 《Journal of Sea Research》2000,44(3-4)

The present contribution gives an overview of current knowledge of a comprehensive and steadily growing research field. The first section deals with water pumping and particle retention mechanisms in ciliary and muscular filter feeders. The second section examines the biological filter pumps in order to assess adaptation to the environment. Filter-feeding benthic invertebrates have evolved filter pumps to solve common basic problems. This has led to a large degree of similarity between otherwise distant standing species, which makes comparative studies interesting and important. The present review of zoobenthic filter feeding aims at accentuating such recognition.  相似文献   

An integrated approach to scaling issues in environmental change study     

LIU Hong-hui  YANG Xiao-huan  WANG Nai-bin  LIU Hai-yan 《地理学报(英文版)》2000,(4)

IntroductionOn the basis of our understanding of ecological principles, we can expect that global changes in climate, atmospheric composition and land use should affect the structure, function, productivity and the sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems[1-3]. It is crucial for scientists to gain capacity to obtain sufficient data and effective understanding of ecosystem behaviors at larger scales, to extent models developed from local experiments to large areas where ground truth data are s…  相似文献   

Variability of stream extents controlled by flow regime and network hydraulic scaling     

Dana A. Lapides  Christine D. Leclerc  Hana Moidu  David N. Dralle  W. Jesse Hahm 《水文研究》2021,35(3):e14079

Stream networks expand and contract through time, impacting chemical export, aquatic habitat, and water quality. Although recent advances improve prediction of the extent of the wetted channel network (L ) based on discharge at the catchment outlet (Q ), controls on the temporal variability of L remain poorly understood and unquantified. Here we develop a quantitative, conceptual framework to explore how flow regime and stream network hydraulic scaling factors co-determine the relative temporal variability in L (denoted here as the total wetted channel drainage density). Network hydraulic scaling determines how much L changes for a change in Q , while the flow regime describes how Q changes in time. We compiled datasets of co-located dynamic stream extent mapping and discharge to analyze all globally available empirical data using the presented framework. We found that although variability in L is universally damped relative to variability in Q (i.e., streamflow is relatively more variable in time than network extent), the relationship is elastic, meaning that for a given increase in the variability in Q , headwater catchments will experience greater-than-proportional increases in the variability of L . Thus, under anticipated climatic shifts towards more volatile precipitation, relative variability in headwater stream network extents can be expected to increase even more than the relative variability of discharge itself. Comparison between network extents inferred from the L -Q relationship and blue lines on USGS topographic maps shows widespread underestimation of the wetted channel network by the blue line network.  相似文献   

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