Fig. 6

Illustration of a sequential column-preference generation algorithm for stochastic simulation in a spatiotemporal domain. Only points in the spatiotemporal neighborhood of the target point defined by the ranges in the spatial and temporal domains need to be considered for random number generation at the target point A. Note that the spatiotemporal neighborhood changes with the target point. Parameters (Θ) include mean, standard deviation, and coefficient of skewness of site- and TDP-specific TDP flows and the spatial and temporal correlation structure (a correlation matrix P of dimension 288 × 288) of TDP flows