Department of Civil Engineering, INHA University, Incheon 22212, the Republic of Korea
Jaewon Jung
Department of Hydro Science and Engineering Research, Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology, Gyeonggi-do 10223, the Republic of Korea
Hung Soo Kim
Department of Civil Engineering, INHA University, Incheon 22212, the Republic of Korea
Masahiko Haraguchi
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto 603-8047, Japan
This study applied a new methodology (complex network), instead of using classic methods, to establish the relationships between rainfall events in large East Asian cities. The relationships show that western China and Southeast Asia have a lot of influence on each other. Moreover, it is confirmed that the relationships arise from the effect of the East Asian monsoon. In future, complex network may be able to be applied to analyze the concurrent relationships between extreme rainfall events.
This study applied a new methodology (complex network), instead of using classic methods, to...