A multiscale spatio-temporal framework to regionalize annual precipitation using k-means and self-organizing map technique

• 来源期刊: 山地科学学报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2018,（7）
• 页码范围: 1481-1497
• 页数: 17页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Determination of homogenous precipitation-based regions is a very important task in effective management of water resources.The present study tried to propose an effective precipitation-based regionalization methodology by conjugating both temporal pre-processing and spatial clustering approaches in a way to take advantage of multiscale properties of precipitation time series.Annual precipitation data of 51 years (1960-2010) for 31 rain gauges (RGs) were collected and used in proposed clustering approaches.Discreet wavelet transform (DWT) was used to capture the time-frequency attributes of the time series and multiscale regionalization was performed by using k-means and Self Organizing Maps (SOM) clustering techniques.Daubechies function (db) was selected as mother wavelet to decompose the precipitation time series.Also,proper boundary extensions and decomposition level were applied.Different combinations of the approximation (A) and detail (D) coefficients were used to determine the input dataset as a basis of spatial clustering.The proposed model's efficiency in spatial clustering stage was verified using three different indexes namely,Silhouette Coefficient (SC),Dunn index and Davis Bouldin index (DB).Results approved superior performance of k-means technique in comparison to SOM.It was also deduced that DWT-based regionalization methodology showed improvements in comparison to historical-based models.Cross mutual information was used to investigate the RGs of cluster 3's homogeneousness in DWT-k-means approach.Results of non-linear correlation approach verified homogeneity of cluster 3.Verifications based on mean annual precipitation values of rain gauges in each cluster also approved the capability of multiscale approach in precipitation regionalization.