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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2019-358
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2019-358
14 Oct 2019
 | 14 Oct 2019
Status: this preprint was under review for the journal HESS but the revision was not accepted.

Time-varying copula and design life level-based nonstationary risk analysis of extreme rainfall events

Pengcheng Xu, Dong Wang, Vijay P. Singh, Yuankun Wang, Jichun Wu, Huayu Lu, Lachun Wang, Jiufu Liu, and Jianyun Zhang

Abstract. Due to global climate change and urbanization, more attention has been paid to decipher the nonstationary multivariate risk analysis from the perspective of probability distribution establishment. Because of the climate change, the exceedance probability belonging to a certain extreme rainfall event would not be time invariant any more, which impedes the widely-used return period method for the usual hydrological and hydraulic engineering practice, hence calling for a time dependent method. In this study, a multivariate nonstationary risk analysis of annual extreme rainfall events, extracted from daily precipitation data observed at six meteorological stations in Haihe River basin, China, was done in three phases: (1) Several statistical tests, such as Ljung-Box test, and univariate and multivariate Mann-Kendall and Pettist tests were applied to both the marginal distributions and the dependence structures to decipher different forms of nonstationarity; (2) Time-dependent Archimedean and elliptical copulas combined with the Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) distribution were adopted to model the distribution structure from marginal and dependence angles; (3) A design life level-based (DLL-based) risk analysis associated with Kendall's joint return period (JRPken)and AND's joint return period (JRPand) methods was done to compare stationary and nonstationary models. Results showed DLL-based risk analysis through the JRPken method exhibited more sensitivity to the nonstationarity of marginal and bivariate distribution models than that through the JRPand method.

Pengcheng Xu, Dong Wang, Vijay P. Singh, Yuankun Wang, Jichun Wu, Huayu Lu, Lachun Wang, Jiufu Liu, and Jianyun Zhang
 
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Pengcheng Xu, Dong Wang, Vijay P. Singh, Yuankun Wang, Jichun Wu, Huayu Lu, Lachun Wang, Jiufu Liu, and Jianyun Zhang
Pengcheng Xu, Dong Wang, Vijay P. Singh, Yuankun Wang, Jichun Wu, Huayu Lu, Lachun Wang, Jiufu Liu, and Jianyun Zhang

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In this study, a multivariate nonstationary risk analysis of annual extreme rainfall events, extracted from daily precipitation data observed at six meteorological stations in Haihe River basin, China, was done in three phases: (1) Several statistical tests, were applied to both the marginal distributions and the dependence structures to decipher different forms of nonstationarity; (2) Time-dependent copulas were adopted to model the distribution structure.