rainfall | R Documentation |
Generates simulated daily rainfall based on parameters derived from daily weather data.
rainfall(ndays, thiswth, months)
ndays |
Number of days to simulate. |
thiswth |
Output of |
months |
If the rainfall simulation method uses monthly statistics (Markov), a vector of month numbers of |
The rainfall simulation currently offers choice of two methods: the simple Poisson model of Rodriguez-Iturbe et al. (1999), and the Markov chain model of Nicks (1974). The latter rainfall calculation is used by the APEX farm model, among others, and is based on monthly statistics.
A vector of daily rainfall totals.
Heather Gall and Sarah Goslee
Rodriguez-Iturbe, I., Porporato, A., Ridolfi, L., Isham, V. and Coxi, D. R. (1999) Probabilistic modelling of water balance at a point: the role of climate, soil and vegetation. Proc Royal Soc A 455, 269–288.
Nicks, A. D. (1974) Stochastic generation of the occurrence, pattern and location of maximum amount of daily rainfall. Pp. 154–171 in: Proceedings Symposium on Statistical Hydrology. USDA Agricultural Research Service Miscellaneous Publication No. 1275, Washington, DC.
wth.param
,
temperature
# GHCN daily weather file for State College, PA # subset of data (2000-2009) for station USC00368449 # data("weather") # same object # calculate parameters for the poisson model # using 0.3 mm as the lower limit for wet days. weather.param.p <- wth.param(weather, method = "poisson", llim = 0.3) # simulate ten years of rainfall rain10.p <- rainfall(365*10, weather.param.p) # increase per-event rainfall by 5 mm weather.param.p5 <- weather.param.p weather.param.p5$params$depth <- weather.param.p5$params$depth + 5 rain10.p5 <- rainfall(365*10, weather.param.p5) # calculate parameters for the Markov chain model # using 0.3 mm as the lower limit for wet days. weather.param.m <- wth.param(weather, method = "markov", llim = 0.3) # rainfall() selects Markov model based on input parameter types rain10.m <- rainfall(365*10, weather.param.m) # simulate 10 years of temperature temp10 <- temperature(365*10, weather.param.p)
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