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An Optimum Scale for Topoclimatic Interpolation of Daily Minimum Temperature in Complex Terrain  

정유란 (경희대학교 생태시스템공학과/생명자원과학연구원)
서희철 (경희대학교 생태시스템공학과/생명자원과학연구원)
윤진일 (경희대학교 생태시스템공학과/생명자원과학연구원)
이광회 (상지대학교 환경식물공학과)
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Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology / v.5, no.4, 2003 , pp. 261-265 More about this Journal
Abstract
Cold air accumulation plays a critical role in formulating daily minimum temperature in complex terrain on radiative cooling nights, and spatial interpolation can be improved by accommodating this important topoclimatic variable. Little is known about the spatial scale for computing cold air accumulation which influences daily minimum temperature. Air temperature was measured at 10-minute intervals during September 2002- February 2003 at eight locations within a 1 by 1 km hilly orchard area. Minimum temperature data for suspected radiative cooling nights were collected, and the deviations from reference observations at a near-by KMA automated weather station were calculated. A digital elevation model with a 10m cell size was used to calculate the cold air accumulation at 8 locations. Zonal averages of the cold air accumulation were computed for each location by increasing the cell radius from 1 to 10. Temperature deviations were regressed to a common logarithm of the smoothed averages of cold air accumulation to derive a linear relationship between the local temperature deviation and the site topography. The highest coefficient of determination ($r^2$ = 0.78) was found at a cell radius of 5, which corresponds to an approximately 1 ha boundary surrounding the point of interest.
Keywords
minimum temperature; topography; cold air drainage; microclimate;
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