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Sample Uncertainty Analysis of Daily Flood Quantiles Using a Weather Generator
The combined use of weather generators (WG) and hydrological models (HM) in what is called synthetic continuous simulation (SCS) has become a common practice for carrying out flood studies. However, flood quantile estimations are far from presenting relatively high confidence levels, which mostly relate to the uncertainty of models’ input data. The main objective of this paper is to assess how different precipitation regimes, climate extremality, and basin hydrological characteristics impact the uncertainty of daily flood quantile estimates obtained by SCS. A Monte Carlo simulation from 18 synthetic populations encompassing all these scenarios was performed, evaluating the uncertainty of the simulated quantiles. Additionally, the uncertainty propagation of the quantile estimates from the WG to the HM was analyzed. General findings show that integrating the regional precipitation quantile ( in the WG model calibration clearly reduces the uncertainty of flood quantile estimates, especially those near the regional . Basin size, climate extremality, and the hydrological characteristics of the basin have been proven not to affect flood quantiles’ uncertainty substantially. Furthermore, it has been found that uncertainty clearly increases with the aridity of the climate and that the HM is not capable of buffering the uncertainty of flood quantiles, but rather increases it.
Sample Uncertainty Analysis of Daily Flood Quantiles Using a Weather Generator
The combined use of weather generators (WG) and hydrological models (HM) in what is called synthetic continuous simulation (SCS) has become a common practice for carrying out flood studies. However, flood quantile estimations are far from presenting relatively high confidence levels, which mostly relate to the uncertainty of models’ input data. The main objective of this paper is to assess how different precipitation regimes, climate extremality, and basin hydrological characteristics impact the uncertainty of daily flood quantile estimates obtained by SCS. A Monte Carlo simulation from 18 synthetic populations encompassing all these scenarios was performed, evaluating the uncertainty of the simulated quantiles. Additionally, the uncertainty propagation of the quantile estimates from the WG to the HM was analyzed. General findings show that integrating the regional precipitation quantile ( in the WG model calibration clearly reduces the uncertainty of flood quantile estimates, especially those near the regional . Basin size, climate extremality, and the hydrological characteristics of the basin have been proven not to affect flood quantiles’ uncertainty substantially. Furthermore, it has been found that uncertainty clearly increases with the aridity of the climate and that the HM is not capable of buffering the uncertainty of flood quantiles, but rather increases it.
Sample Uncertainty Analysis of Daily Flood Quantiles Using a Weather Generator
Carles Beneyto (author) / Gloria Vignes (author) / José Ángel Aranda (author) / Félix Francés (author)
2023
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