Articles | Volume 23, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-107-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-107-2019
Research article
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08 Jan 2019
Research article |  | 08 Jan 2019

Modeling the spatial dependence of floods using the Fisher copula

Manuela I. Brunner, Reinhard Furrer, and Anne-Catherine Favre

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Floods often affect a whole region and not only a single location. When estimating the rarity of regional events, the dependence of floods at different locations should be taken into account. We propose a simple model that considers the dependence of flood events at different locations and the network structure of the river system. We test this model on a medium-sized catchment in Switzerland. The model allows for the simulations of flood event sets at multiple gauged and ungauged locations.
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