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- Title
Comparison of geostatistical approaches to spatially interpolate month-year rainfall for the Hawaiian Islands.
- Authors
Frazier, Abby G.; Giambelluca, Thomas W.; Diaz, Henry F.; Needham, Heidi L.
- Abstract
ABSTRACT The Hawaiian Islands have one of the most spatially diverse rainfall patterns on earth. Knowledge of these patterns is critical for a variety of resource management issues and, until now, only long-term mean monthly and annual rainfall maps have been available for Hawai'i. In this study, month-year rainfall maps from January 1920 to December 2012 were developed for the major Hawaiian Islands. The maps were produced using climatologically aided interpolation ( CAI), where the station anomalies were interpolated first, and then combined with the mean maps. A geostatistical method comparison was performed to choose the best interpolation method. The comparison focuses on three kriging algorithms: ordinary kriging (OK), ordinary cokriging (OCK), and kriging with an external drift (KED). Two covariates, elevation and mean rainfall, were tested with OCK and KED. The combinations of methods and covariates were compared using cross-validation statistics, where OK produced the lowest error statistics. Station anomalies for each month were interpolated using OK and combined with the mean monthly maps to produce the final month-year rainfall maps.
- Subjects
HAWAII; RAINFALL anomalies; GEOLOGICAL statistics; TRADE winds; PRECIPITATION anomalies; CLIMATOLOGY; RAIN gauges
- Publication
International Journal of Climatology, 2016, Vol 36, Issue 3, p1459
- ISSN
0899-8418
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/joc.4437