MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS FOR STREAMFLOW GENERATION

Abstract

The objective of the thesis is to examine the applicabi-lity of multivariate technique of multisite streamflow synthe-sis via principal component analysis for the specific case of river Narmada, To generate synthetic events for more than one site, the cross correlation between the historic events at different sites must be considered, whereas under certain'condi- tions the use of key stations for extending or generating the records implies a biased serial correlation coefficient ( of lag one). Principal component scores as the result of •interme-diate step can be generated independently and there is no need to maintain cross correlations between pairs of components. because all components are uncorrelated...