ALTERNATIVE INDICES OF THE OVERLOAD FREQUENCY IN AN EFFLUENT RE-USE SYSTEM     

G. J. MURTAGH 《水文研究》1996,10(9):1139-1145

An effluent re-use system is examined in which all effluent was stored until it could be used for the irrigation of crops, the storage having sufficient capacity to limit overloading to one in ten years. Three methods for estimating the required storage capacity were compared using climate data from four locations in New South Wales, Australia. A daily soil water budget identified the irrigation opportunities, and a storage subroutine in the budget calculated the peak storage requirement in each year The first method used the ninth decile in the cumulative probability distribution of the annual peak storage requirements as a direct estimate of the storage capacity with a 10% frequency of overloading. The other methods used the peak storage requirement in selected design years. These represented years with either the tenth smallest annual irrigation potential or the tenth largest annual rainfall. Methods which used design years tended to underestimate the storage requirements because the indices did not assess the daily distribution of rainfall within a month or year. Although the overload frequency was set at 10%, the overload was less than 2% of the total volume of effluent because overloading did not occur throughout the year.  相似文献   

Spatial representation of economic and financial measures used in agriculture via wavelet analysis     

MITCHELL MOREHART  FIONN MURTAGH  JEAN-LUC STARCK 《International journal of geographical information science》2013,27(6):557-576

A foundation is set forth for use of the wavelet transform as a spatial analysis tool for modelling the geographical representation of economic and financial measures used in agriculture. This provides a framework from which to estimate a smooth nonparametric function which describes complex, multivariate relationships embedded in spatial data, with the resulting maps conveying large amounts of information in a familiar format. We illustrate this approach for tasks which include the graphical presentation of information, density estimation and wavelet-based nonparametric regression. A redundant wavelet transform is used, and we detail the properties which make it particularly appropriate for these objectives.  相似文献