Development of National Drought Atlases for the Caribbean Countries

General Objective

The overall objective of the workshop is to train the participants in the application of the Regional Frequency Analysis using L-moments, to contribute to the development of applications of the procedure in the analysis of extreme hydro-climatic events and the development of the Caribbean Drought Atlas.

Specific Objectives

Specifically, the workshop contributes to: a) capacity building of early-career professionals on the application of the Regional Frequency Analysis using L-moments for applications in hydrology and drought vulnerability analysis;  b) training on the available open source software options (R-scripts and REFRAN-CV; c) increase the number of specialists in the region that are trained in the methodology; and d) generate a set of preliminary drought frequency maps for participation countries of the Caribbean (and selected Latin America countries).

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• practical info:

workshop agenda (version 4): click here information and guideline: click here

• template files for database creation

example station metadata file: click here example precipitation data file: click here

• R-scripts:

(zip file with all scripts): click here A-RSARFLMv6.0Feb.R : click here B-NCEP.R: click here C-PointSpatialMapping.r : click here D-GEOMORPHOLOGY.R : click here E-MB-CLUSTERING.R: click here F-EDA.R: click here G-FrequencyQualtilEstimation.R: click here H-ModelMapMapping.R: click here I-ModelMapMapping.R: click here" Material del Taller y Guía Práctica".

Presentations

• The global scope: The Project 'Managing Water Resources in Arid/Semiarid Regions of Latin America and the Caribbean (MWAR-LAC)': download here 
• Background Theory:
  • Introucton to probabilistic hydrology: download here
  • Example using the conventional calculation method: download here
  • Introduction to L-moments and Regional Frequency Analysis: download here
• The different stages of the Regional Frequency Approach using L-Moments
• Step 1: Data preparation and input: download here
• Step 2: Identification of Homogeneous Regions: download here
• Step 3: Determination of the Probability Distribution: download here
• Step 4: Determination of the Return Periods: download here
• Step 5: Mapping process: download here (currently being adjusted)

Follow-up Document You can find the follow-up to the workshop, with indicative dates on Google-drive (permission required)