Transfer function modeling of the monthly accumulated rainfall series over the Iberian Peninsula

In order to improve the results given by Autoregressive Moving-Average (ARMA) modeling for the monthly accumulated rainfall series taken at 19 observatories of the Iberian Peninsula, a Discrete Linear Transfer Function Noise (DLTFN) model was applied taking the local pressure series (LP), North Atla...

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Autores: MATEOS, VIDAL L., GARCÍA, JOSÉ A., SERRANO, ANTONIO, DE LA CRUZ GALLEGO, MARÍA
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:México
Recursos:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Atmósfera
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/8503
Acesso em linha:https://www.revistascca.unam.mx/atm/index.php/atm/article/view/8503
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:AUTOREGRESSIVE - MOVING AVERAGE
DISCRETE LINEAR TRANSFER FUNCTION NOISE
RAINFALL MODELING
Autoregressive - moving average
discrete linear transfer function noise
rainfall modeling
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Resumo:In order to improve the results given by Autoregressive Moving-Average (ARMA) modeling for the monthly accumulated rainfall series taken at 19 observatories of the Iberian Peninsula, a Discrete Linear Transfer Function Noise (DLTFN) model was applied taking the local pressure series (LP), North Atlantic sea level pressure series (SLP) and North Atlantic sea surface temperature (SST) as input variables, and the rainfall series as the output series. In all cases, the performance of the DLTFN models, measured by the explained variance of the rainfall series, is better than the performance given by the ARMA modeling. The best performance is given by the models which take the local pressure as the input variable, followed by the sea level pressure models and the sea surface temperature models. Geographically speaking, the models fitted to those observatories located in the west of the Iberian Peninsula work better than those on the north and east of the Peninsula. Also, it was found that there is a region located between 0ºN and 20º N, which shows the highest cross-correlation between SST and the peninsula rainfalls. This region moves to the west and northwest off the Peninsula when the SLP series are used.