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A geomorphological study at the confluence of the Danube and the Isar in Bavaria required long series of daily discharges in both rivers. A model that generates simultaneous correlated streamflows in both rivers was developed and tested. The model is a modified shot noise model, first developed by Treiber (1975) for a single river, that was adapted to two rivers. It generates correlated pulses of events that produce flow for each river, and these pulses are then convoluted with a river specific systems function. The model, after being calibrated for the two rivers on the basis of 85 years of records, yields artificial series of discharges, in which the statistical properties of the historical records are reproduced. The performance of the model was tested with 20 generated series each 100 years long.
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Kron, W., Plate, E.J. & Ihringer, J. A model for the generation of simultaneous daily discharges of two rivers at their point of confluence. Stochastic Hydrol Hydraul 4, 255–276 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01544081
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