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https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-1104
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-1104
27 Feb 2023
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NEOPRENE v1.0.1: A Python library for generating spatial rainfall based on the Neyman-Scott process

Javier Diez-Sierra, Salvador Navas, and Manuel del Jesus

Abstract. Long time series of rainfall at different levels of aggregation (daily or hourly in most cases) constitute the basic input for hydrological, hydraulic and climate studies. However, often times the length, completeness, time resolution or spatial coverage of the available records fall short of the minimum requirements to build robust estimations. Here, we introduce NEOPRENE, a Python library to generate synthetic time series of rainfall. NEOPRENE simulates multi-site synthetic rainfall that reproduces observed statistics at different time aggregations. Three case studies exemplify the use of the library, focusing on extreme rainfall, as well as on dissagregating daily rainfall observations into hourly rainfall records. NEOPRENE is distributed from GitHub with an open license (GPLv3), free for research and commercial purposes alike. We also provide Jupyter notebooks with the example uses cases to promote its adoption by researchers and practitioners involved in vulnerability, impact and adaptation studies.

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01 Sep 2023
NEOPRENE v1.0.1: a Python library for generating spatial rainfall based on the Neyman–Scott process
Javier Diez-Sierra, Salvador Navas, and Manuel del Jesus
Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 5035–5048, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-5035-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-5035-2023, 2023
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NEOPRENE is an open source freely available library allowing scientist and practitioners to...
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