期刊
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
卷 50, 期 3, 页码 2050-2071出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014616
关键词
dependence; flood risk; statistical models; asymptotic dependence
资金
- Federal Government through Geoscience Australia
- Australian Research Council [CE110001028]
Accounting for dependence between extreme rainfall and storm surge can be critical for correctly estimating coastal flood risk. Several statistical methods are available for modeling such extremal dependence, but the comparative performance of these methods for quantifying the exceedance probability of rare coastal floods is unknown. This paper compares three classes of statistical methodsthreshold-excess, point process, and conditionalin terms of their ability to quantify flood risk. The threshold-excess method offers approximately unbiased estimates for dependence parameters, but its application for quantifying flood risk is limited because it is unable to handle situations where only one of the two variables is extreme. In contrast, the point process method (with the logistic and negative logistic models) and the conditional method describe the full distribution of extremes, but they overestimate and underestimate the dependence strength, respectively. We conclude that the point process method is the most suitable approach for modeling dependence between extreme rainfall and storm surge when the dependence is relatively strong, while none of the three methods produces satisfactory results for bivariate extremes with very weak dependence. It is therefore important to take the bias of each method into account when applying them to flood estimation problems. A case study is used to demonstrate the three statistical methods and illustrate the implication of dependence to flood risk. Key Points Dependence is critical for correctly assessing coastal flood risk Point process model is suitable for modeling strong dependence None of the three methods produce satisfactory results for very weak dependence
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