Quadrature-based approach for the efficient evaluation of surge hazard   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

G.R. Toro  A.W. Niedoroda  D. Divoky 《Ocean Engineering》2010,37(1):114-124

The Joint Probability Method (JPM) has been used for hurricane surge frequency analysis for over three decades, and remains the method of choice owing to the limitations of more direct historical methods. However, use of the JPM approach in conjunction with the modern generation of complex high-resolution numerical models (used to describe winds, waves, and surge) has become highly inefficient, owing to the large number of costly storm simulations that are typically required. This paper describes a new approach to the selection of the storm simulation set that permits reduction of the JPM computational effort by about an order of magnitude (compared to a more conventional approach) while maintaining good accuracy. The method uses an integration scheme called Bayesian or Gaussian-process quadrature (together with conventional integration methods) to evaluate the multi-dimensional joint probability integral over the space of storm parameters (pressure, radius, speed, heading, and any others found to be important) as a weighted summation over a relatively small set of optimally selected nodes (synthetic storms). Examples of an application of the method are shown, drawn from the recent post-Katrina study of coastal Mississippi.  相似文献   

独立参数降雹条件概率法识别雹云之探讨     

张明祥  还爱霞 《气象》1994,20(10):31-35

利用江苏盐城和福建雷达回波资料，探空资料，天气实况，对独立参数降雹条件概率法识别雹云的应用范围，零度层高度对识别准确率的影响以及如何选取区分水平高的参数等问题进行了探讨，得出一些有意义的结论，有一定的实用价值。  相似文献   

What has seismic missed?     

Gordon Kaufman 《Natural Resources Research》1994,3(4):304-314

The relative efficiencies of alternative geometric patterns of both discrete borehole and continuous grid line search have been extensively discussed in the mathematical geology literature. However, an equally important problem has received virtually no attention: How to use a sample of properties of geologic anomalies detected by grid line search of a region to estimate systematically both the number and size distribution of geologic anomalies missed by the search. We show how estimation methods developed in the sample survey design literature can be adapted to this problem, and we apply these methods to data describing 94 anomalies identified by a seismic reconnaissance survey.  相似文献   

Bayesian statistics of non-linear inverse problems: example of the magnetotelluric 1-D inverse problem   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Pascal Tarits  Virginie Jouanne  Michel Menvielle  Michel Roussignol 《Geophysical Journal International》1994,119(2):353-368

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南水北调中线工程交叉建筑物水毁风险分析   总被引：11，自引：1，他引：11  

韩国宏  王汝慈 《水文》1995,(3):1-7

南水北调中线工程输水总干渠上需建数以百计的河渠交叉建筑物。总干渠经过地区为暴雨多发区，只要其中任一座遭遇特大洪水而失事，干渠供水将会受到影响。对这些交叉建筑物进行水毁风险分析，是此项工程规划、设计和运行管理的供输水风险评价和可靠度分析必不可少的组成部分。主要从水文风险要素的辨识入手，采用概率组合法，建立了整个总干渠洪水水毁风险计算的框架，并提出了二维复合事件的风险计算模型。所建模型巧妙地解决了各交  相似文献   

月降水量的持续性分析   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

陈兴芳  宋文玲 《应用气象学报》1993,(Z1)

根据1951—1990年全国160站月降水量资料,通过计算相关系数、相关概率和持续性比,统计分析降水量的月际持续性特点.其结果可为月尺度降水的长期预报提供有关信息和相应的气候概况.  相似文献   

浅源强震的判据和发震概率   总被引：2，自引：5，他引：2       下载免费PDF全文

王绳祖 《地震地质》1990,12(2):131-140

根据确定潜在震源区的多判据原理,强震的发生不仅要满足准静态强度条件,而且必须具备突发释放足够能量的条件,而所有这些条件可以通过突发应力降判据、总能量判据和强度判据加以表达。本文建立了它们相应的概率表达式和估计发震总概率的方法,并针对我国28例地震进行了验算  相似文献   

Reliability level III method in design of square pillar resting on weak floor stratum     

W. M. Pytel 《Geotechnical and Geological Engineering》1990,8(2):149-162

Summary Current methods of design of pillars resting on weak floor strata involve only a deterministic, conventional safety factor calculation, based on material parameters treated as the mean values taken from observations. In a case where high parameters variability occurs, these methods may lead to fatal design errors resulting in excessive pillar settlement and roof falls. Therefore, to include the influence of parameters quality, the new approach based on reliability level III method was developed. Consideration was given to the identification of the system parameters importance, and to density function for the safety factor treated as a random variable. Design procedure involving floor probability of failure was illustrated by numerical examples.  相似文献   

Seismic recognition of local inhomogeneities     

J. Batllo  F. Goltsman  D. Kalinin  J. Pous 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》1990,132(4):639-652

A simple method to contour local inhomogeneities using seismic data is proposed. It formalizes an approximate inversion method which is based on the interpretation of local inhomogeneities as making the differences between an actual seismic data set and a previous reference model. It uses the optimal statistical criteria of parameter estimation and recognition and the ray representation of the waves spreading. Any combination of direct, reflected and/or other types of waves may be used as the database. Inhomogeneities, having a size two times above the wavelength of the seismic waves, can be resolved. Laboratory experiments, using ultrasonic waves and analysis of data from field experiments, confirmed the theoretical results. The method can be used to search for ore bodies, kimberlite cubes, oiltraps, etc.  相似文献   

Entropy estimation of hydrological extremes     

N. C. Lind  H. P. Hong 《Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (SERRA)》1991,5(1):77-87

The method of Relative Entropy with Fractile constraints (REF method) is explained and applied to model extreme compound hydrological phenomena, such as extreme sea levels under storm conditions. Also presented is a simple method of Tail Entropy Approximation (TEA), which amounts to a correction of traditional statistical estimates for extreme observations.Distribution assumptions are necessary but downplayed in the REF method, relegating the prior distribution to the role of an extrapolation function. The estimates are objective in an information-theoretical sense. They also satisfy a strict requirement of self-consistency that is generally not satisfied by standard statistical methods: invariance under monotonic transformations of the random variable.Historical records of storm surge levels in the Netherlands and annual maximum tidal heights for Sheerness, UK, are used as examples. Comparison is made with distributions obtained using other methods.It is concluded that the tail entropy approximation provides simple, objective estimates of extremes in the tail beyond the range of observations.  相似文献