Spatial Precipitation Assessment with Elevation by Using Point Cumulative Semivariogram Technique

Zekai Şen and Zeyad Habib

Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), 2000, vol. 14, issue 4, 325 pages

Abstract: Depiction of precipitation change by elevation in an areaindicates the possibilities of orographic rainfall occurrencesin the mountainous regions. In general, precipitation increaseswith elevation but sometimes inverse cases occur locally due toorographic and meteorological features of the area. Inpractice, prior to any quantitative modeling, qualitativeassessments and interpretations help to have sound foundationsin search for a suitable model. In this article, standardizedpoint cumulative semivariogram (SPCSV) methodology is employedfor identification of the precipitation-elevationrelationship. According to relative positions of theprecipitation and elevation SPCSVs four different precipitationcategories are suggested. The application of the methodologyproposed is presented for the precipitation records from YuccaMountain, Nevada, U.S.A. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2000

Keywords: areal precipitation; elevation; orography; point semivariogram; spatial variation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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