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Madadgar, Shahrbanou.

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Towards Improving Drought Forecasts Across Different Spatial and Temporal Scales.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Towards Improving Drought Forecasts Across Different Spatial and Temporal Scales./
作者:	Madadgar, Shahrbanou.
面頁冊數:	129 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-05(E), Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-05B(E).
標題:	Engineering, Civil. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3608609
ISBN:	9781303669552

Towards Improving Drought Forecasts Across Different Spatial and Temporal Scales.
Madadgar, Shahrbanou.

Towards Improving Drought Forecasts Across Different Spatial and Temporal Scales. - 129 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-05(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Portland State University, 2013.

Recent water scarcities across the southwestern U.S. with severe effects on the living environment inspire the development of new methodologies to achieve reliable drought forecasting in seasonal scale. Reliable forecast of hydrologic variables, in general, is a preliminary requirement for appropriate planning of water resources and developing effective allocation policies. This study aims at developing new techniques with specific probabilistic features to improve the reliability of hydrologic forecasts, particularly the drought forecasts. The drought status in the future is determined by certain hydrologic variables that are basically estimated by the hydrologic models with rather simple to complex structures. Since the predictions of hydrologic models are prone to different sources of uncertainties, there have been several techniques examined during past several years which generally attempt to combine the predictions of single (multiple) hydrologic models to generate an ensemble of hydrologic forecasts addressing the inherent uncertainties. However, the imperfect structure of hydrologic models usually lead to systematic bias of hydrologic predictions that further appears in the forecast ensembles. This study proposes a post-processing method that is applied to the raw forecast of hydrologic variables and can develop the entire distribution of forecast around the initial single-value prediction. To establish the probability density function (PDF) of the forecast, a group of multivariate distribution functions, the so-called copula functions, are incorporated in the post-processing procedure. The performance of the new post-processing technique is tested on 2500 hypothetical case studies and the streamflow forecast of Sprague River Basin in southern Oregon. Verified by some deterministic and probabilistic verification measures, the method of Quantile Mapping as a traditional post-processing technique cannot generate the qualified forecasts as comparing with the copula-based method.

ISBN: 9781303669552Subjects--Topical Terms:

783781
Engineering, Civil.

Towards Improving Drought Forecasts Across Different Spatial and Temporal Scales.
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