dc.contributor.author | Majumder, Reetam | |
dc.contributor.author | Neerchal, Nagaraj K. | |
dc.contributor.author | Mehta, Amita | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-04T14:55:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-11-04T14:55:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-10-09 | |
dc.description.abstract | Stochastic precipitation generators (SPGs) are a class of statistical models which generate synthetic data that can simulate dry and wet rainfall stretches for long durations. Generated precipitation time series data are used in climate projections,
impact assessment of extreme weather events, and water resource and agricultural
management. We construct an SPG for daily precipitation data that is specified as a
semi-continuous distribution at every location, with a point mass at zero for no precipitation and a mixture of two exponential distributions for positive precipitation.
Our generators are obtained as hidden Markov models (HMMs) where the underlying climate conditions form the states. We fit a 3-state HMM to daily precipitation
data for the Chesapeake Bay watershed in the Eastern coast of the USA for the wet
season months of July to September from 2000–2019. Data is obtained from the GPMIMERG remote sensing dataset, and existing work on variational HMMs is extended
to incorporate semi-continuous emission distributions. In light of the high spatial
dimension of the data, a stochastic optimization implementation allows for computational speedup. The most likely sequence of underlying states is estimated using
the Viterbi algorithm, and we are able to identify differences in the weather regimes
associated with the states of the proposed model. Synthetic data generated from the
HMM can reproduce monthly precipitation statistics as well as spatial dependency
present in the historical GPM-IMERG data. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | The hardware used in the computational studies is part of the UMBC High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF). The facility is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation through the MRI program (grant nos. CNS–0821258, CNS–1228778,
and OAC–1726023) and the SCREMS program (grant no. DMS–0821311), with additional substantial support from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).
See hpcf.umbc.edu for more information on HPCF and the projects using its resources.
Co-author Reetam Majumder was supported by the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology and by the HPCF as a Research Assistant. | en_US |
dc.description.uri | https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.04305 | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 27 pages | en_US |
dc.genre | journal articles | en_US |
dc.genre | preprints | en_US |
dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2jyti-4tru | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2210.04305 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/26265 | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology | |
dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Faculty Collection | |
dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Mathematics and Statistics Department | |
dc.rights | This item is likely protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. Unless on a Creative Commons license, for uses protected by Copyright Law, contact the copyright holder or the author. | en_US |
dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) | * |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | * |
dc.title | Stochastic Precipitation Generation for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed using Hidden Markov Models with Variational Bayes Parameter Estimation | en_US |
dc.type | Text | en_US |