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A space-time rainfall generator for highly convective Mediterranean rainstorms
Hydraulic Engineering and Environment Department, Politechnical University of Valencia, Spain
Abstract. Distributed hydrological models require fine resolution rainfall inputs, enhancing the practical interest of space-time rainfall models, capable of generating through numerical simulation realistic space-time rainfall intensity fields. Among different mathematical approaches, those based on point processes and built upon a convenient analytical description of the raincell as the fundamental unit, have shown to be particularly suitable and well adapted when extreme rainfall events of convective nature are considered. Starting from previous formulations, some analytical refinements have been considered, allowing practical generation of space-time rainfall intensity fields for that type of rainstorm events. Special attention is placed on the analytical description of the spatial and temporal evolution of the rainfall intensities produced by the raincells. After deriving the necessary analytical results, the seven parameters of the model have been estimated by the method of moments, for each of the 30 selected rainfall events in the Jucar River Basin (ValenciaSpain) – period 1991 to 2000, using 5-min aggregated rainfall data series from an automatic raingauge network.
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Citation: Salsón, S. and Garcia-Bartual, R.: A space-time rainfall generator for highly convective Mediterranean rainstorms, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 3, 103-114, 2003. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager
