Modelling Catchment Rainfall Using Sum of Correlated Gamma Variables
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https://doi.org/10.11113/jt.v63.1918Keywords:
Rainfall model, correlated gamma, catchment rainfallAbstract
One of the major difficulties in simulating rainfall is the need to accurately represent rainfall accumulations. An accurate simulation of monthly rainfall should also provide an accurate simulation of yearly rainfall by summing the monthly totals. A major problem in this regard is that rainfall distributions for successive months may not be independent. Thus the rainfall accumulation problem must be represented as the summation of dependent random variables. This study is aimed to show if the statistical parameters for several stations within a particular catchment is known, then a weighted sum is used to determine a rainfall model for the entire local catchment. A spatial analysis for the sum of rainfall volumes from four selected meteorological stations within the same region using the monthly rainfall data is conducted. The sum of n correlated gamma variables is used to model the sum of monthly rainfall totals
from four stations when there is significant correlation between the stations.
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