THE MODELLING OF HYDROLOGICAL JOINT EVENTS ON THE MORAVA RIVER USING AGGREGATION OPERATORS
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1 2009/3 PAGES 9 15 RECEIVED ACCEPTED R. MATÚŠ THE MODELLING OF HYDROLOGICAL JOINT EVENTS ON THE MORAVA RIVER USING AGGREGATION OPERATORS ABSTRACT Rastislav Matúš Department of Water Resources Management, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Radlinského 11, Bratislava, Slovakia, rastimatus@gmail.com Research field: copulas, flood frequency analysis KEY WORDS This article aims to study the multivariate dependence properties and joint probability distributions of complex hydrological variables and design-appropriate copula functions for their probabilistic description in the specific physiographic properties of the Morava River in south-west Slovakia. Various steps involved in investigating the dependence between two random variables and in modeling it using Archimedean, Extreme Value (EV) and Archimax copulas are exhibited. Our approach allows us to model the dependence structure independently of the marginal distributions, which is not possible with standard classical methods. The methodology has been applied on the joint modeling of maximum annual flood peak flows and volumes. GOF tests using Wilcoxon p-values have shown that the Archimax Copula with an Archimedean generator φ and our proposed dependence function A gives visibly better results than the Archimedean or EV copulas. Furthermore, the Archimax copula with the proposed dependence function A could also simply model asymmetric data that frequently occurrs in hydrology. This approach using copulas is promising since it allows us to take into account a wide range of correlation that happens in hydrology. Archimedean copula Extreme value copula Archimax copula Archimax dependence function A Morava River 1. INTRODUCTION A floodpeak plays a key role in assessing the hydrologic safety of localities of interest as in the estimation of the incidence and severity of floods (De Michele, et al., 2004). Unfortunately, the statistical methods widely used in engineering applications are usually directed only at an analysis of peak discharges. The utilization of such a statistical result seems to be inappropriate since the duration and volume of critical flows are often as important as the peak and could lead to a severe underestimation of the risk associated with a given event (Adamson, et al., 1999). For instance, flood protection levels may fail, not only as a result of overtopping but also because of extreme durations of high water levels causing saturation and collapse. Long periods of a flood event in a mainstream may increase the backwater effects in tributary channels, thereby extending the flood impact upstream in these lateral channels. Classical multivariate distributions (multivariate normal, bivariate Pareto, bivariate gamma, etc.) are widely used, although we necessarily need the same family for each marginal distribution. Furthermore, extensions of more than just the bivariate case are not clear, and the parameters of the marginal distributions are also used to model the dependence between the random variables (Favre, et al., 2004). A construction of multivariate distributions based on Sklar s theorem (Sklar, 1959) does not suffer from these drawbacks SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY 9
2 1.1 General Theory about Copulas The theory about copulas can be found in general textbooks such as those of Nelsen (1999), Joe (1997) and Salvadori, et al. (2007). To define a copula, consider p uniform (on the unit interval) and random variables U 1, U 2... U p, whose joint distribution function C is defined as, (1.1) where u denotes realizations. Those p variables are distribution functions (also referred to as probability integral transformations) of p outcomes X 1,X 2,,X p (that we wish to understand); in other words they are the marginal distribution functions F 1,F 2, F p of the multivariate distribution function, (1.2) which is defined using a copula function, evaluated at realizations x 1,x 2,,x p. Sklar (1959) showed that the converse of (1.2) also holds, i.e., any multivariate distribution function F can be written as a copula function. Furthermore, if the marginals are continuous, then there is a unique copula representation. Thus the copula function provides a unifying and flexible way to study joint distributions (with different marginals) and allows for the modeling of the dependence structure independently of the marginal distributions. In the remainder of the article we limit the discussion to the bivariate case for simplicity reasons. 1.2 Dependence Schweizer and Wolf (1981) established that the copula accounts for all the dependence between two random variables, X 1, in the following sense. Consider g 1 and g 2, two strictly increasing functions (but otherwise arbitrary) over the range of X 1. Then the transformed variables g 1 (X 1 ) and g 2 (X 2 ) have the same copula as X 1. Thus, the manner in which X 1 move together is captured by the copula, regardless of the scale in which each variable is measured (Frees and Valdez, 1998). One of the measures of association that could be expressed solely in terms of the copula function is Kendall s τ. Unlike the well-known Pearson s correlation coefficient, which can also measure the nonlinear dependence between variables, it is independent of the marginals (thus not affected by any nonlinear changes of scale) and can be used to estimate the parameters of several copulas. 1.3 Archimedean Copulas The Archimedean representation allows us to reduce the study of a multivariate copula to a single univariate function. For simplicity, we consider bivariate copulas so that p = 2. Assume that φ is a convex, decreasing function with domain (0, 1] and range [0, ), that is φ: [0,1] [0, ], such that φ (1) = 0. Use φ 1 for the inverse function of φ. Then the function for (1.3) is said to be an Archimedean copula, and φ is its generator (Nelsen, 1999). Different choices of generator yield different families of copulas (Nelsen, 1999, and Joe, 2007). Archimedean copulas present several interesting properties (symmetry, associativity, etc.). Their estimation is easier due to the simplified relation to Kendall s tau,, (1.4) If the symmetry in the arguments becomes limiting, desired extensions are possible (Joe, 2007). 1.4 The Extreme Value Copula A copula is said to be an EV copula if for all t>0, the scaling property C(u t,v t ) = (C(u,v)) t holds for all (u,v) I 2. EV copulas are max-stable, meaning that if (X, Y ), (X, Y ),..., (X n, Y n ) are i.i.d. random pairs from an EV copula C and M n =max{x,x,...,x 1 2 n }, N n =max{y, Y,..., Y 1 2 n }, a copula associated with the random pair (M n,n n ) is also C. It can be shown (Gumbel, 1960) that EV copulas can be represented in the form: (1.5) where A: [0,1] [1/2,1] is a convex function such that max(t,1- t) < A(t) < 1 for all t [0,1]. The function A is called the dependence function. 1.5 The Archimax copula Capérraŕ, et al. (2000) combined the EV and Archimedean copula classes into a single class called Archimax copulas, represented in the form (1.6) where A is a valid dependence function and a valid Archimedean generator. Archimax copulas reduce to Archimedean copulas for 10 THE MODELLING OF HYDROLOGICAL JOINT EVENTS ON THE MORAVA RIVER USING...
3 Then the conditional copula conditioned to the random variable u has the form: (1.9) Fig 1.1 Dependence function A: a=0.3, b=0.8, c=0.1 (upper curve); a=0.5, b=0.5, c=0 (lower one). A(t)=1 and to EV copulas for φ(t)= log(t). In the latter they proved that it is a valid copula for any combination of valid function and A. Matúš and Bacigál (2007) have constructed an Archimax dependence function A. Furthermore, to be able to simulate the data for an extreme data analysis and so requirement of the derivation of the Archimax copula, we divided dependence function A into three parts as follows: Algorithm 1.1 to simulate random pairs to our Archimax Copula, it has the following steps: Step 1. Generate uniform random variables s, q of length n Step 2. Compute v 1, v 2 and q 1, q 2 : Step 3. Search the interval for a root of the function f i with respect to q as its argument: (1.7) where a (0,1), b=max(a,1 a), c [a,1], D 3-2a(1+b)c+(- 1+b)c 2 +a 2 (-1+b+4c)/(4(-1+a)ac), D 2 (-1+b)(-c+a(-1+2c))/(2(- 1+a)ac), D 1 (1-b)/(4a-4a 2 c). The Archimax copulas reduce to Archimedean copulas for a=0, b=1, c=0 and to the Fréchet-Hoeffding upper boundary C(u,v)=min(u,v) for a=b=0.5, c=0. A multivariate approach using the Archimax copula with our proposed dependence function A could also simply model asymmetric hydrological variables. The Archimax copula with proposed dependence function A has the following form: (1.8) The desired simulated pairs are (s i,v i ). 2. APPLICATION: BIVARIATE FREQUENCY ANALYSIS 2.1 Definition Problem Many hydrological engineering planning, design and management problems require a detailed knowledge of flood event characteristics, such as flood peak, volume and duration. Flood frequency analysis often focuses on flood peak values and hence provides a limited assessment of flood events. This application concerns the bivariate frequency analysis of the peak flow and volume of the Morava River. The watershed is situated in the southwest of Slovakia. The underlying data (Fig. 2.1) are the annual peak flows Q max and THE MODELLING OF HYDROLOGICAL JOINT EVENTS ON THE MORAVA RIVER USING... 11
4 Fig. 2.1 Annual Maximum Peak Discharge Q max, Volume V and Duration D (Morava River, 1941). Volumes V, which are derived using the program code obtained in Delphi. Flow discharges were measured in Moravský sv. Ján from 1921 to Figure 2.2a shows the flows and volumes as a time series. 2.2 Modeling and results The annual maximum flows Q max were fitted by a GEV distribution (Beirlant, et al., 2004). We obtained a Gumbel distribution Q ~ GEV(417.81, , 0.0). For the appropriate volumes V we obtained V ~ Weibull(1.234e+09, 8.738e-01). The parameters were estimated using several methods discussed in (Beirlant, et al., 2004), the maximum likelihood method and the weighted method (see Fig. 2.3). In the second step we modeled the link between the two variables. Before a copula model for the pair (X,Y) was sought, visual tools were used to check for the presence of dependence. The scatter plot of the ranks shown in Fig. 2.2b suggests the presence of a positive association between the peak flow and volume, as might be expected. This is confirmed by the χ-plot (Fischer and Switzer, 2001) and the K-plot (Genest and Boies, 2003), reproduced in the c) and d) panels of Fig. 2.2, respectively. As can be seen, most of the points fall outside the confidence band of the χ-plot. An obvious curvature is also apparent in the K-plot. To qualify the degree of dependence in the pair (X,Y), the sample value of Kendall s tau was computed, τ = We considered 27 families of Archimedean copulas as stated in Nelsen (1999) and Joe (2007); EV copulas (Gumbel (1960), Galambos (1987), Hüsler and Reiss (1989), Tawn (1988), and the BB5 copula (Joe, 2007)) and Archimax copulas denoted by the Archimedean generator φ and dependence function A described in Section 1.5. Some of these families could be eliminated off-hand, given that the degrees of dependency they span were insufficient to account for the association observed in the data set. For the latter, the semi-parametric estimation (Genest, et al., 1995) method using the maximum likelihood estimation of the copula parameter θ was used, (2.1) where c θ denotes the copula s density. The nonparametric estimation (Genest and Rivest, 1993) of a one-parametric Archimedean copula parameter θ was evaluated using equation 1.4. To help sieve through the remaining models, graphic diagnostic tools were used, for instance, those based on the QQ-plots of the univariate distribution function of the copula against standard uniform quantiles (Fischer and Switzer, 2001; Genest and Rivest, 1993). Furthermore, we have checked the closeness of the simulated data to the observed ones (Fig. 2.4). Parameters a, b, c in the case of the Archimax copulas were selected from a set of 417 possible triplets by fitting empirical copula 12 THE MODELLING OF HYDROLOGICAL JOINT EVENTS ON THE MORAVA RIVER USING...
5 2009/3 PAGES (2.2) Simultaneously with the graphic methods, goodness-of-fit (GOF) tests to evaluate the quality of the fit were used (KolmogorovSmirnov, Pearson s χ2 Wilcoxon and t test). We can conclude that the Archimax copulas with our proposed dependence function A fits the given extreme hydrological data most appropriately (see Table 1). Following the mentioned graphic methods and GOF-tests, several families of copulas have a good fitting plot and p-value. As a further graphic check, pairs of points were generated from Cθ (see on Fig. 2.5, left). Furthermore, the margins of random pairs (Ui,Vi) from each of the estimated copula models Cθ were transformed back into the original units using the marginal distributions F and G identified in Section 2.1 for peak and volume (Genest and Favre, 2007). The resulting scatter plots of pairs (Xi,Yi)=(F -1(Ui), G -1(Vi)) are displayed in Fig. 2.5 right along with the actual observations. We decided to model our data with the Archimax copula using the proposed dependence function A and Archimedean generator A.14 φ(t) = (t 1/θ - 1)θ, where θ = 1.812, a=0.1, b=0.95, c=0.1. Fig. 2.2 a) Time series of max. annual flows Qmax and Volumes V (the thinner curve represents Volumes (105) b) Scatter plot of the ranks Xi,Yi ; c) χ-plot d) K-plot. Fig. 2.3 Histograms with fitted Gumbel and Weibull distributions. Fig. 2.4 QQ-plots of empirical vs. an EV and Archimax copula. THE MODELLING OF HYDROLOGICAL JOINT EVENTS ON THE MORAVA RIVER USING... 13
6 Fig. 2.5 a) Simulation and b) transformation of pairs (U i,v i ) from Archimax C θn with φ(t)=a.14, c) possible flood volumes to a given maximum registered flood peak of 1573 m 3 /s equal from to m 3. Table 1 The best GOF-test results in the class with corresponding parameter estimates. According to the conditional Archimax copula from equation 1.9, we get the range of all possible flood volumes V to a given maximum registered flood peak Q max of 1573 m 3 /s equal from to m 3 (Fig. 2.5c). The latter one is used when estimating the return period T=1/(1-C(u,v)). For example, the return period for Q max =1573 m 3 /s and the maximum flood volume from the range V max = m 3 is 236 years. 3. CONCLUSIONS Copula functions provide an excellent area for possible future research as they may be approached from a mathematical, statistical or computational point of view. In recent years, numerous successful applications of copula methodology have been made, most notably in survival analysis, actuarial science and finance. Most of these models have also been used in hydrology; however, asymmetry that notably occurrs in hydrological or hydro-meteorological data was not taken into account. A multivariate approach using the Archimax copula with our proposed dependence function A could also simply model asymmetric variables. The latter gives visibly better results than other families of copulas. However, investigating different statistical techniques used in calibrating copulas to hydrological data is needed. This would aid in identifying copula functions that are relevant to specific hydrological or hydro-meteorological problems. Furthermore, we could, for example, relate Kendall s tau or Spearman s rho with physiographic data (like watershed area, slope, etc.), which are always available in practical cases. Favre, et al. (2004) also proposed to estimate parameters using a Bayesian approach. This method is more suitable than the maximum likelihood method when the sample size is small, as is usually the case in hydrology. The trivariate modeling of flow, volume and duration is also of great interest for hydrologists (Grimaldi, et al., 2005). Acknowledgements The study was solved within the projects VEGA 1/2032/05: Stochastic Analysis of Hydro-meteorological Processes: Modeling of the Unstationarity, Heteroskedascity and Unlinearity, and APVT : The Latest Methods of the Stochastic and Unstochastic Modeling of the Uncertainty and Their Engineering Applications. 14 THE MODELLING OF HYDROLOGICAL JOINT EVENTS ON THE MORAVA RIVER USING...
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