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Two-Dimension Monthly River Flow Simulation Using Hierarchical Network-Copula Conditional Models

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River flow simulation is required on water resources planning and management. This paper proposes hierarchical network-copula conditional models to generate two-dimension monthly streamflow matrix aiming at simulating flow both on time and space. HNCCMs develop the simulation generator driven by both temporal and spatial covariates conditioned upon values of a set of parameters and hyper parameters which can be addressed from the three-layer hierarchical system. In the first layer, streamflow time series of the station at the most upstream is generated using bivariate Archimedean copulas and river flow space series in each month at stations down a river in sequence is simulated by nested copulas in the second layer. Last, the seasonal characters of the temporal parameters and covariates are detected as well as the spatial ones are detected using the neural network by fitting them into functions to contribute to the downscaling of space series. A case study for the model is carried on the Yellow River of China. This case (1) detects temporal and spatial relationships which illustrate the capacity of catching the seasonal characterize and spatial trend, (2) generates a river flow time series at Huayuankou station as well as (3) simulates a flow space sequence in January picking out best fitted building blocks for the cascade of bivariate copulas, and finally (4) synthesizes two-dimension simulation of monthly river flow. The result illustrates the essentially pragmatic nature of HNCCMs on simulation for this spatiotemporal monthly streamflow which is nonlinear and complex both on time and space.

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The project was financially supported by the National Key Research Program of China (Grant No. 2016YFC0401306), the applied technology research program (2016-005-HHS-KJ-X).

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Wang, W., Dong, Z., Si, W. et al. Two-Dimension Monthly River Flow Simulation Using Hierarchical Network-Copula Conditional Models. Water Resour Manage 32, 3801–3820 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-018-1968-7

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