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Spatial prediction on river networks: comparison of top‐kriging with regional regression
Authors:G. Laaha  J.O. Skøien  G. Blöschl
Affiliation:1. Institute of Applied Statistics and Computing (IASC), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, BOKU Vienna, Austria;2. Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Ispra, Italy;3. Institute for Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering (IWI), Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Abstract:Top‐kriging is a method for estimating stream flow‐related variables on a river network. Top‐kriging treats these variables as emerging from a two‐dimensional spatially continuous process in the landscape. The top‐kriging weights are estimated by regularising the point variogram over the catchment area (kriging support), which accounts for the nested nature of the catchments. We test the top‐kriging method for a comprehensive Austrian data set of low stream flows. We compare it with the regional regression approach where linear regression models between low stream flow and catchment characteristics are fitted independently for sub‐regions of the study area that are deemed to be homogeneous in terms of flow processes. Leave‐one‐out cross‐validation results indicate that top‐kriging outperforms the regional regression on average over the entire study domain. The coefficients of determination (cross‐validation) of specific low stream flows are 0.75 and 0.68 for the top‐kriging and regional regression methods, respectively. For locations without upstream data points, the performances of the two methods are similar. For locations with upstream data points, top‐kriging performs much better than regional regression as it exploits the low flow information of the neighbouring locations. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords:change of support  geostatistics  spatial interpolation  prediction in ungauged basins (PUB)  stream distance  low flows and droughts
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