A spatial disaggregation procedure for precipitation |
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| Authors: | THOMAS SKAUGEN |
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| Institution: | Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate , PO Box 2091, Maj, N-0301, Oslo, Norway E-mail: ths@nve.no |
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| Abstract: | Abstract A disaggregation procedure is presented to render forecast values of precipitation from an atmospheric model with spatial resolution of 11 × 11 km suitable as input for a distributed hydrological model with spatial resolution of 1.1 × 1.1 km. Statistical and morphological properties of the input field, such as spatial mean, variance, correlation structure and intermittency, are respected in the disaggregated field. The adopted approach is a combination of interpolation and simulation. The four nodal points of the atmospheric model grid cell are used both for determining the parameters of the exponential distribution for simulating precipitation values, and in a simple interpolation procedure to determine the spatial location of the precipitation values. A shifted distribution with two parameters is used in the case of full coverage of the grid cell, and a one-parameter distribution with a theoretically derived intermittency parameter is used if intermittency is present. The results are promising with respect to the statistical and morphological properties of the disaggregated field. |
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| Keywords: | spatial disaggregation precipitation simulation exponential distribution intermittency distributed models |
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