主办单位:中国气象局沈阳大气环境研究所
国际刊号:ISSN 1673-503X
国内刊号:CN 21-1531/P

Journal of Meteorology and Environment ›› 2017, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (1): 34-43.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-503X.2017.01.005

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Comparison study of spatial interpolation methods based on hourly precipitation data from automatic weather stations

XU Luan1,2, DONG Mei-ying1, CHEN Feng1   

  1. 1. Zhejiang Meteorology Science Institute, Hangzhou 310008, China;
    2. Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
  • Received:2015-09-25 Revised:2016-05-30 Online:2017-02-28 Published:2017-02-28

Abstract: The gridding of precipitation data from automatic weather stations is of the urgent need to be dealt with in current meteorological service and research,and spatial interpolation is the most direct and efficient method to fulfill it.In this study,three cases were chosen to be the typical representations of wide range intense rainfall,wide range weak rainfall and local convective weather,respectively.Based on the three sets of experiments,eight common methods for interpolation are adopted to compare the interpolation results of various methods and the influence due to station densities.The first set of experiments which is based on high-density stations (the average distance between two stations is approximately 9 km) shows that the interpolation result of CR is the best,followed by IW,NN,LP,KR,TL,MQ,SP in that order.The differences among various interpolation methods are less significant than those among samples,suggesting that it is station distributions,instead of interpolation methods,that play a dominant role in the interpolation results.The second set of experiments which is based on low-density stations (the average distance between two stations is nearly 30 km) shows that the values of RMSE (root mean square error) increase significantly,so do the differences among eight methods.The values of RMSE have a slight increase after interpolation,and the results among various methods are similar in the case of local strong convection.Sensitivity experiments are carried out using the three interpolation methods such as CR,IW,and NN,indicating that RMSE will diminish with the increase of station densities,but the trend will slow down in case that the average station distance reduces to no more than 13 km.

Key words: Hourly precipitation, Spatial interpolation, Station density, Sensitivity

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