Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that a finite state cellular
automata model is suitable for modeling rainfall in the space-time plane. The
time-series properties of the simulated series are matched with historical rainfall
data gathered from Whenuapai, NZ. The spatial scale of the model cells
in related to land-area by optimizing the cross-correlation between sites at lag
0 relative to rainfall data collected from Auckland, NZ. The model is shown
to be adequate for simulation in time, but inadequate in spatial dimension for
short distances.
Citation
Munroe, D.R., Mills, B.I., & Cowpertwait, P.S.P. (2004), A model of rainfall based on finite-state cellular automata, Research Letters in the Information and Mathematical Sciences, 6, 97-108
Date
2004
Publisher
Massey University