Simulated precipitation fields with variance-consistent interpolation |
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| Authors: | Thomas Skaugen Jess Andersen |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Hydrology Department , Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) , PO Box 5091, Maj., N-0301, Oslo, Norway ths@nve.no;3. Hydrology Department , Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) , PO Box 5091, Maj., N-0301, Oslo, Norway |
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| Abstract: | Abstract Gridded meteorological data are available for all of Norway as time series dating from 1961. A new way of interpolating precipitation in space from observed values is proposed. Based on the criteria that interpolated precipitation fields in space should be consistent with observed spatial statistics, such as spatial mean, variance and intermittency, spatial fields of precipitation are simulated from a gamma distribution with parameters determined from observed data, adjusted for intermittency. The simulated data are distributed in space, using the spatial pattern derived from kriging. The proposed method is compared to indicator kriging and to the current methodology used for producing gridded precipitation data. Cross-validation gave similar results for the three methods with respect to RMSE, temporal mean and standard deviation, whereas a comparison on estimated spatial variance showed that the new method has a near perfect agreement with observations. Indicator kriging underestimated the spatial variance by 60–80% and the current method produced a significant scatter in its estimates. Citation Skaugen, T. & Andersen, J. (2010) Simulated precipitation fields with variance-consistent interpolation. Hydrol. Sci. J. 55(5), 676–686. |
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| Keywords: | spatial rainfall interpolation spatial variance intermittency Norway |
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