• Login
    View Item 
    •   Home
    • UA Graduate and Undergraduate Research
    • UA Theses and Dissertations
    • Dissertations
    • View Item
    •   Home
    • UA Graduate and Undergraduate Research
    • UA Theses and Dissertations
    • Dissertations
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Browse

    All of UA Campus RepositoryCommunitiesTitleAuthorsIssue DateSubmit DateSubjectsPublisherJournalThis CollectionTitleAuthorsIssue DateSubmit DateSubjectsPublisherJournal

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    About

    AboutUA Faculty PublicationsUA DissertationsUA Master's ThesesUA Honors ThesesUA PressUA YearbooksUA CatalogsUA Libraries

    Statistics

    Most Popular ItemsStatistics by CountryMost Popular Authors

    Modeling of rainfall distribution, hydrologic processes and examination of model sensitivity in the context of atmosphere-land surface interactions.

    • CSV
    • RefMan
    • EndNote
    • BibTex
    • RefWorks
    Thumbnail
    Name:
    azu_td_9421769_sip1_w.pdf
    Size:
    3.640Mb
    Format:
    PDF
    Download
    Author
    Gao, Xiaogang.
    Issue Date
    1993
    Keywords
    Dissertations, Academic.
    Hydrology.
    Environmental sciences.
    Committee Chair
    Sorooshian, Soroosh
    
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Publisher
    The University of Arizona.
    Rights
    Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author.
    Abstract
    In order to improve current climate models, two issues have been recognized to be significant: (1) properly representing the precipitation distribution within a GCM grid square, (2) evaluating and improving the existing land surface hydrologic schemes. This dissertation is devoted to these issues. Precipitation affects the climate system in a variety of ways and occurs over areas that are usually smaller than the GCM grid square. This complicates the modeling of land surface processes. There are, however, stable seasonal statistical patterns underlying the observed data for a GCM grid square. A stochastic scheme was therefore proposed for the assimilation of the statistical patterns (extracted from historical data) into the land surface scheme to enhance the simulation. The required high resolution precipitation data may be obtained from satellite imagery for global application. Systematic sensitivity analyses for the Biosphere-Atmosphere Transfer Scheme (BATS) was described in this dissertation. Two types of experiments were conducted to examine the BATS performance. The first type consisted of varying 'perturbation variables' and exploring corresponding variations in energy/water states and fluxes. The employed method stressed (1) long term and multiple measures of model behavior, (2) the dominant processes under certain conditions and the proper ranges for model parameters estimates. The second type experiments applied BATS to a GCM grid covering the Lower Colorado River Basin and examined the effect of intragrid variability on land surface hydrology. The results from different spatial resolutions are compared. BATS sensitivity to initialization, atmospheric forcings, land surface properties and the computational grid size are discussed.
    Type
    text
    Dissertation-Reproduction (electronic)
    Degree Name
    Ph.D.
    Degree Level
    doctoral
    Degree Program
    Hydrology and Water Resources
    Graduate College
    Degree Grantor
    University of Arizona
    Collections
    Dissertations

    entitlement

     
    The University of Arizona Libraries | 1510 E. University Blvd. | Tucson, AZ 85721-0055
    Tel 520-621-6442 | repository@u.library.arizona.edu
    DSpace software copyright © 2002-2017  DuraSpace
    Quick Guide | Contact Us | Send Feedback
    Open Repository is a service operated by 
    Atmire NV
     

    Export search results

    The export option will allow you to export the current search results of the entered query to a file. Different formats are available for download. To export the items, click on the button corresponding with the preferred download format.

    By default, clicking on the export buttons will result in a download of the allowed maximum amount of items.

    To select a subset of the search results, click "Selective Export" button and make a selection of the items you want to export. The amount of items that can be exported at once is similarly restricted as the full export.

    After making a selection, click one of the export format buttons. The amount of items that will be exported is indicated in the bubble next to export format.