Analysis and Application of Drought Characteristics Based on Theory of Runs and Copulas in Yunnan, Southwest China

Liping Wang, Xingnan Zhang, Shufang Wang, Mohamed Khaled Salahou and Yuanhao Fang
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Liping Wang: College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
Xingnan Zhang: College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
Shufang Wang: College of Water Conservancy, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming 650201, China
Mohamed Khaled Salahou: State Key Laboratory of Hydrology–Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
Yuanhao Fang: College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 13, 1-17

Abstract: Drought is a complex natural disaster phenomenon. It is of great significance to analyze the occurrence and development of drought events for drought prevention. In this study, two drought characteristic variables (the drought duration and severity) were extracted by using the Theory of Runs based on four drought indexes (i.e., the percentage of precipitation anomaly, the standardized precipitation index, the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index and the improved comprehensive meteorological drought index). The joint distribution model of drought characteristic variables was built based on four types of Archimedean copulas. The joint cumulative probability and the joint return period of drought events were analyzed and the relationship between the drought characteristics and the actual crop drought reduction area was also studied. The results showed that: (1) The area of the slight drought and the extreme drought were both the zonal increasing distribution from northeast to southwest in Yunnan Province from 1960 to 2015. The area of the high frequency middle drought was mainly distributed in Huize and Zhanyi in Northeast Yunnan, Kunming in Central Yunnan and some areas of Southwest Yunnan, whereas the severe drought was mainly occurred in Deqin, Gongshan and Zhongdian in Northwest Yunnan; (2) The drought duration and severity were fitted the Weibull and Gamma distribution, respectively and the Frank copula function was the optimal joint distribution function. The Drought events were mostly short duration and high severity, long duration and low severity and short duration and low severity. The joint cumulative probability and joint return period were increased with the increase of drought duration and severity; (3) The error range between the theoretical return period and the actual was 0.1–0.4 a. The year of the agricultural disaster can be accurately reflected by the combined return period in Yunnan Province. The research can provide guidelines for the agricultural management in the drought area.

Keywords: drought; theory of runs; copula; joint return period; Yunnan province (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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