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Modeling jointly low, moderate, and heavy rainfall intensities without a threshold selection

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In statistics, extreme events are often defined as excesses above a given large threshold. This definition allows hydrologists and flood planners to apply Extreme-Value Theory (EVT) to their time series of interest. Even in the stationary univariate context, this approach has at least two main drawbacks. First, working with excesses implies that a lot of observations (those below the chosen threshold) are completely disregarded. The range of precipitation is artificially shopped down into two pieces, namely large intensities and the rest, which necessarily imposes different statistical models for each piece. Second, this strategy raises a nontrivial and very practical difficultly: how to choose the optimal threshold which correctly discriminates between low and heavy rainfall intensities. To address these issues, we propose a statistical model in which EVT results apply not only to heavy, but also to low precipitation amounts (zeros excluded). Our model is in compliance with EVT on both ends of the spectrum and allows a smooth transition between the two tails, while keeping a low number of parameters. In terms of inference, we have implemented and tested two classical methods of estimation: likelihood maximization and probability weighed moments. Last but not least, there is no need to choose a threshold to define low and high excesses. The performance and flexibility of this approach are illustrated on simulated and hourly precipitation recorded in Lyon, France.
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hal-02078026 , version 1 (28-10-2020)

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Philippe Naveau, Raphaël Huser, Pierre Ribereau, Alexis Hannart. Modeling jointly low, moderate, and heavy rainfall intensities without a threshold selection. Water Resources Research, 2016, 52 (4), pp.2753-2769. ⟨10.1002/2015WR018552⟩. ⟨hal-02078026⟩
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