Hybrid, Markov Chain-Based Model for Daily Streamflow Generation at Multiple Catchment Sites
Publication: Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
Volume 11, Issue 3
Abstract
A hybrid, seasonal, Markov chain-based model is formulated for daily streamflow generation at multiple sites of a watershed. Diurnal increments of the rising limb of the main channel hydrograph were stochastically generated using fitted, seasonally varying distributions in combination with an additive noise term, the standard deviation of which depended linearly on the actual value of the generated increment. Increments of the ascension hydrograph values at the tributary sites were related by third- or second-order polynomials to the main channel ones, together with an additive noise term, the standard deviation of which depended nonlinearly on the main channel’s actual increment value. The recession flow rates of the tributaries, as well as of the main channel, were allowed to decay deterministically in a nonlinear way. The model-generated daily values retain the short-term characteristics of the original measured time series (i.e., the general shape of the hydrograph) as well as the probability distributions and basic long-term statistics (mean, variance, skewness, autocorrelation structure, and zero-lag cross correlations) of the measured values. Probability distributions of the annual maxima, means, and minima of the measured daily values were also well replicated.
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Acknowledgments
This work has been supported by the Hungarian Research and Development Project: “Flood Risk Analysis,” Grant No. UNSPECIFIEDNKFP 3/067/2001 by the Hungarian American Joint Research Fund (MAKA). The writers are grateful to Charles Flowerday for his editorial help and to Margit Horosz-Gulyas for her help with the figures. The views, conclusions, and opinions expressed in this paper are solely those of the writers and not the University of Nebraska, State of Nebraska, or any political subdivision thereof. This paper is a contribution of the University of Nebraska Agricultural Research Division, Lincoln, NE 68583, Journal Series No. 14518.
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Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
Volume 11 • Issue 3 • May 2006
Pages: 245 - 256
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Received: May 27, 2004
Accepted: Jul 18, 2005
Published online: May 1, 2006
Published in print: May 2006
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