Spatial interpolation of Daily temperatures using an advection scheme Kwang Soo Kim

Outline Introduction Weather data Spatial interpolation Natural neighbor Pseudo Advection Scheme Results Conclusions

Introduction Disease warning systems depend on weather data Site-specific weather estimates can be used as inputs to disease warning systems Site-specific estimates have been obtained using spatial interpolation

Sites of Interest Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN) of National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Distributed over the USA. Represent various climate conditions. 53 % of SCAN stations were established after sites were included as validation sites

Neighbor stations The US National Climate Data Center (NCDC) Global Surface Summary of the Day (GSOD) database Daily temperatures and precipitation Long term weather records are available Free access to the public

Site distribution On average, about 1600 neighbor stations were used for spatial interpolation

Spatial interpolation products DAYMET Daily estimates of weather variables Truncated Gaussian filter From 1980 to 2003 PRISM Monthly estimates of weather variables Various covariate variables are used Both products are based on National Weather Service (NWS) Cooperative Observers Network stations

Voronoi tessellation

Delaunay triangulation

Natural Neighbors Watson, 1999

Conventional VS Natural neighbor interpolation

Local coordinates Sukuma, 2003

Pseudo Advection Scheme Natural neighbor interpolation can be used to solve the partial differential equation (Sukuma, 2003). Advection scheme can be used for spatial interpolation ∂  /∂t + u·  = 0

Daily minimum temperature Environmental Lapse RateEmpirical Lapse Rate R2 = Y = X RMSE = 3.55 R2 = Y = X RMSE = 3.60

DAYMET R2 = Y = X RMSE = 3.20

PAS Environmental Lapse Rate Empirical Lapse Rate R2 = Y = X RMSE = 2.96 R2 = 923 Y = X RMSE = %18%

Conventional VS PAS

Monthly temperature Environmental Lapse Rate Empirical Lapse Rate R2 = Y = X RMSE = 2.00 R2 = Y = X RMSE = 1.90

DAYMET and PRISM R2 = Y = X RMSE = 1.92 R2 = Y = X RMSE = 1.80

PAS R2 = Y = X RMSE = 1.89 R2 = Y = X RMSE = 1.99 Environmental Lapse Rate Empirical Lapse Rate

Conventional VS PAS

Conclusions PAS can improve accuracy of site- specific estimates of daily minimum temperature Natural neighbor interpolation can provide accurate estimates of monthly weather variables Accuracy of PAS/Natural Neighbor method can be improved when COOP data are used

What’s next Sub daily interpolation of weather data using PAS Advection scheme is better suited for sub daily data

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