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Information Entropy of a Rainfall Network in China

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Modeling Risk Management for Resources and Environment in China

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In this paper, we use the directional information transmission index which is based on information entropy to investigate the spatial nonuniformity of rainfall in the Huaihe River basin in China, and propose methods of information transfer function, information distance and information area which are employed to determine the area where a rain gauge is capable of representing. The analysis also involves transformation of the rainfall field from discrete state to continuous state.

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Acknowledgments

This work is supported by the Public-interest Industry Project of Ministry of Water Resources of China (No. 200801027).

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  1. Business School, Hohai University at Changzhou, Changzhou, 213022, People’s Republic of China

    Jiguo Zhang

  2. State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing, 210098, People’s Republic of China

    Jiguo Zhang & Huimin Wang

  3. Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA

    Vijay P. Singh

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Correspondence to Jiguo Zhang .

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  1. , Risklab, University of Toronto, Spadina Crescent 1, Toronto, M5S 3G3, Ontario, Canada

    Desheng Dash Wu

  2. , Academy of Mathematics and Systems Scien, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China, People's Republic

    Yong Zhou

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Zhang, J., Wang, H., Singh, V.P. (2011). Information Entropy of a Rainfall Network in China. In: Wu, D., Zhou, Y. (eds) Modeling Risk Management for Resources and Environment in China. Computational Risk Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18387-4_2

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