Evaluation of a compound distribution based on weather pattern subsampling  for extreme rainfall in Norway

Blanchet, J.; Touati, J.; Lawrence, D.; Garavaglia, F.; Paquet, E.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-2653-2015

Articles | Volume 15, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-2653-2015

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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-2653-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 12

Research article

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10 Dec 2015

Research article |

| 10 Dec 2015

Evaluation of a compound distribution based on weather pattern subsampling for extreme rainfall in Norway

J. Blanchet, J. Touati, D. Lawrence, F. Garavaglia, and E. Paquet

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RC C1199: 'Evaluation of a compound distribution based on weather patterns subsampling for extreme rainfall in Norway', Anonymous Referee #1, 01 Jul 2015
- AC C1632: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee \#1', J. Blanchet, 11 Sep 2015
RC C1495: 'Review of the paper', Anonymous Referee #2, 13 Aug 2015
- AC C1641: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee \#2', J. Blanchet, 11 Sep 2015

Short summary

Simulation methods for design flood analyses require estimates of extreme precipitation for simulating maximum discharges. This article evaluates the MEWP model for extreme precipitation, a compound model based on weather-pattern classification, seasonal splitting and exponential distributions, for its suitability for use in Norway. It shows the clear benefit obtained from seasonal and weather-pattern-based subsampling for extreme value estimation.