A diagnostic study of spectral multiscaling on spatio-temporal accumulations of rainfall fields based on radar measurements over Iowa

作者：Pavlopoulos Harry^*; Krajewski Witold

来源：Advances in Water Resources, 2014, 74: 258-278.

DOI：10.1016/j.advwatres.2014.10.001

• Rain rate
• Spatio-temporal accumulation
• Optimal threshold coverage
• Stationary time series
• Spectral distribution
• Spectral multiscaling

Spectral multiscaling postulates a power-law type of scaling of spectral distribution functions of stationary processes of spatial averages or their temporal accumulations, over nested and geometrically similar sub-regions of the spatial parameter space of a given spatio-temporal random field. Presently, the validity of this property is investigated using time series of spatio-temporal accumulations of rain rate fields measured by a network of Doppler radars covering the region of Iowa. Statistical evidence of spectral multiscaling is gathered and discussed through a systematic study of appropriate regression diagnostics, using two records of data. One is a 120-month record of hourly (60-min) accumulations of spatially averaged rain rate on square pixels of side length 4 km, comprising a rectangular grid of dimension 80 x 160 covering almost the entire State of Iowa. The other is a 74-month record of quarterly (15-min) accumulations of spatially averaged rain rate on square pixels of side length 1 km, comprising a rectangular grid of dimension 68 x 106 over the Cedar River basin in eastern Iowa. The diagnostic results indicate frequency-dependent scaling relationships interpreted as evidence of spectral multiscaling across a range of spatial scales.

• 出版日期2014-12