Abstract: The agricultural sector of Fars province plays a substantial role in ensuring food security, production, and employment in Iran. Unfortunately, in recent decade wide areas of the province have been affected by drought phenomenon. Due to interdependence drought characteristics and the existence of ungagged areas, in this research, a regional bivariate analysis is proposed for meteorological drought analysis. The cluster analysis and the L-moments method is used to identify homogenous regions of Fars. For meteorological drought analysis of the monthly rainfall series, standardized precipitation index method is used and the crucial drought characteristics, namely drought duration and severity, are determined. Marginal probability distributions of these characteristics are identified by fitting Gamma and Exponential distributions. Three types of bivariate copulas (i.e., Frank, Clayton, and Gumbel–Hougaard) are evaluated for modeling......
Keywords: copula functions, l- moment method, Regional bivariate frequency analysis, Water-Supply
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