A model of rainfall based on finite-state cellular automata
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2004
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Massey University
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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.
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Rainfall
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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