Effects of network design on climatic maps of precipitation

CR Climate Research Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout the JournalEditorsSpecials CR 07:1-10 (1996) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/cr007001 Effects of network design on climatic maps of precipitation Kutiel H, Kay PA We use a simulation study to investigate the effect of network arrangement on the spatial and volumetric estimation of rain fields from a limited number of gauges. Rainfall fields are created as summations of a number of random elliptical events. Each simulation is sampled by 6 different fixed network designs of 9 points. Isohyet maps provide spatial and volumetric estimates, which are then compared to the known characteristics of the events comprising the simulations. Additionally, 100 random network designs for each simulation provide sampling distributions of the number of dry points sampled, from which the efficiency of each network design is inferred. The choice of the 'best' design depends on the criterion which it is most important to satisfy and on the spatial characteristics of the rainfall events across the study area. Climatic maps · Isohyets · Rainfall fields · Network design Full text in pdf format NextExport citation RSS - Facebook - Tweet - linkedIn Cited by Published in CR Vol. 07, No. 1. Publication date: August 22, 1996 Print ISSN: 0936-577X; Online ISSN: 1616-1572 Copyright © 1996 Inter-Research.