Estimation and spatial interpolation of rainfall intensity distribution from the effective rate of precipitation |
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| Authors: | Ming Li Quanxi Shao Luigi Renzullo |
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| Institution: | (1) CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Private Bag No. 5, Wembley, WA, 6913, Australia;(2) CSIRO Land and Water, GPO Box 1666, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia |
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| Abstract: | Great emphasis is being placed on the use of rainfall intensity data at short time intervals to accurately model the dynamics
of modern cropping systems, runoff, erosion and pollutant transport. However, rainfall data are often readily available at
more aggregated level of time scale and measurements of rainfall intensity at higher resolution are available only at limited
stations. A distribution approach is a good compromise between fine-scale (e.g. sub-daily) models and coarse-scale (e.g. daily)
rainfall data, because the use of rainfall intensity distribution could substantially improve hydrological models. In the
distribution approach, the cumulative distribution function of rainfall intensity is employed to represent the effect of the
within-day temporal variability of rainfall and a disaggregation model (i.e. a model disaggregates time series into sets of
higher solution) is used to estimate distribution parameters from the daily average effective precipitation. Scaling problems
in hydrologic applications often occur at both space and time dimensions and temporal scaling effects on hydrologic responses
may exhibit great spatial variability. Transferring disaggregation model parameter values from one station to an arbitrary
position is prone to error, thus a satisfactory alternative is to employ spatial interpolation between stations. This study
investigates the spatial interpolation of the probability-based disaggregation model. Rainfall intensity observations are
represented as a two-parameter lognormal distribution and methods are developed to estimate distribution parameters from either
high-resolution rainfall data or coarse-scale precipitation information such as effective intensity rates. Model parameters
are spatially interpolated by kriging to obtain the rainfall intensity distribution when only daily totals are available.
The method was applied to 56 pluviometer stations in Western Australia. Two goodness-of-fit statistics were used to evaluate
the skill—daily and quantile coefficient of efficiency between simulations and observations. Simulations based on cross-validation
show that kriging performed better than other two spatial interpolation approaches (B-splines and thin-plate splines). |
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