Estimating Extreme Groundwater Levels
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Estimating Extreme Groundwater Levels
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Ezra [email protected]
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Estimating extreme groundwater levelsHydrologidagarna, 18 Mars 2014
› Damage caused by:› Buoyancy› Landslides
› In water resources management
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› Unclear which distributions can be used
› Many long time series in SGU’s groundwater network available
› Parameter convergence vs time series length
What is interesting about this?
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Basic steps to estimation of return levels
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Distributions tested
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› Distributions tested:› Normal› Generalized extreme
value› Log Pearson type 3› …
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Model-adequacy: Anderson-Darling
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› 8 series for normal distribution rejected
› GEV rejected for cases with far outliers and negative skewness
› LP3 rejected for far outliers
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L-moment diagram with Anderson Darling: Normal distribution
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Convergence of mean of groundwater time series
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› Normal distribution often good model but not always adequate
› Good convergence of mean value after 12 years
› GEV and LP3 good alternatives
Conclusions
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