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The variability of the relationship between precipitation and runoff is of vital importance to study the characteristics of regional water cycle and water resource management and planning. In this study, in order to explore the relationship between precipitation and runoff of the different hydrological patterns, the analysis of bivariate precipitation and runoff distributions and the simultaneous occurrence probability was analyzed by employing the Archimedean copula, based on the monthly runoff and precipitation data during 1960 ~ 2000 in the upper Huai river basin, China. The results indicated that: (I) the study region could be classified into four hydrological patterns, namely the Huai river valley zone, Huaibei plain zone, Huainan mountain zone and Huaibei mountain zone, with Xixian, Zhuanqiao, Meishan and Zhaopingtai as the maximal loading subbasin respectively. (II) There were positive dependence structure between precipitation and runoff in the study area, and the bivariate frequency distributions could be fitted best by the Gumbel-Hougaard copula. (III) The simultaneous occurrence probability of bivariate drought events was remarkable higher than that of corresponding classification of bivariate flood events; besides, the simultaneous occurrence probability of bivariate extreme events was maximum in the Huainan mountain zone, followed by the Huai river valley zone and Huaibei mountain zone, while that was minimum in the Huaibei plain zone. These results would be of essential guiding significance for water resource management and planning, flood and drought control and layout optimization of water conservancy projects in the study region.
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This research was funded by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (Grant No. 2010CB951102) and the Funds for Creative Research Groups of China (Grant No.51021066). We thank the editors and anonymous reviewers for their critical and constructive comments and suggestions.
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Xing, Z., Yan, D., Zhang, C. et al. Spatial Characterization and Bivariate Frequency Analysis of Precipitation and Runoff in the Upper Huai River Basin, China. Water Resour Manage 29, 3291–3304 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-015-0997-8
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