ON THE INDEPENDENCE OF YEARLY WATER INPUTS IN DAMS.

Abstract

This paper considers the assumption in Moran's theory that the yearly water inputs into a reservoir are independently distributed. To test this hypothesis, two models are constructed for the annual discharges of 17 Australian rivers. The first, a Markov process with normal residuals, leads to the tentative conclusion that discharges from most of the rivers can only approximately be regarded as serially independent. From the second model, a simple Markov chain, it is shown that for runs of from 58 to 72 years, no reliable conclusion can be drawn. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1965
Accession Number
AD0624898

Entities

People

  • J. Gani
  • R. R. Bhat

Organizations

  • Michigan State University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cooperation
  • Markov Chains
  • Markov Processes
  • Mathematics
  • Probability
  • Reservoirs
  • Residuals
  • Stochastic Processes

Readers

  • Hydrologic Risk Analysis and Mitigation.
  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.
  • Regression Analysis.