《Analysis of stochastic characteristics of the Benue River flow process》.pdfVIP

Joumal Chineseof and OceanologyLimnology V01．26No．2，R142-151，2008 DoI：10．1007／s00343-008—0142-0 ofstochasticcharacteristicsoftheBenueRiver Analysis flow process幸 MartinsYOTACHE”，MohammadBAKIR，LI Zhijia(李致家)” State KeyLaboratory ofHydrology-WaterResources＆HydraulicEngineering,HohaiUniversity,Nanjing210098,China Received Oct．23，2007；revisionDec．1 accepted2，2007 AbstractStochasticcharacteristicsoftheBenueRiverstreamflowareexaminedunder process ofdata conditions streamflowis for and austeritY．The processinvestigatedtrend．non．stationarity foratime of26 oftrend withMann—Kendalltestshowthat seasonality period years．Resultsanalyses thereisnotrendinthe annualmean flowseriesexaminedwithseasonalKendalltest discharges．Monthly indicatethe of for inthetrendsome themonthsof presencepositivechange months．especiallyAugust． the and flowseries tobe January,andFebruary．Forstationaritytest，dailymonthly appear stationary whereasat 1 1％，5％，and levels，the alternative is forthe O％significantstationarity hypothesisrejected annualflow flow tobe this of series．Thoughmonthlyappearsstationarygoingby test，becausehigh couldbesaidtoexhibit basedon the seasonality,it periodicstationarity seasonalityanalysis．The conclusionsare is inboth following drawn：f1)111ereseasonalitythemeanandvariancewithunimodal w