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http://dx.doi.org/10.5532/KJAFM.2017.19.3.93

Estimation of Climatological Standard Deviation Distribution  

Kim, Jin-Hee (National Center for Agro-Meteorology, Seoul National University)
Kim, Soo-ock (National Center for Agro-Meteorology, Seoul National University)
Kim, Dae-jun (National Center for Agro-Meteorology, Seoul National University)
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Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology / v.19, no.3, 2017 , pp. 93-101 More about this Journal
Abstract
The distribution of inter-annual variation in temperature would help evaluate the likelihood of a climatic risk and assess suitable zones of crops under climate change. In this study, we evaluated two methods to estimate the standard deviation of temperature in the areas where weather information is limited. We calculated the monthly standard deviation of temperature by collecting temperature at 0600 and 1500 local standard time from 10 automated weather stations (AWS). These weather stations were installed in the range of 8 to 1,073m above sea level within a mountainous catchment for 2011-2015. The observed values were compared with estimates, which were calculated using a geospatial correction scheme to derive the site-specific temperature. Those estimates explained 88 and 86% of the temperature variations at 0600 and 1500 LST, respectively. However, it often underestimated the temperatures. In the spring and fall, it tended to had different variance (e.g., increasing or decreasing pattern) from lower to higher elevation with the observed values. A regression analysis was also conducted to quantify the relationship between the standard deviation in temperature and the topography. The regression equation explained a relatively large variation of the monthly standard deviation when lapse-rate corrected temperature, basic topographical variables (e.g., slope, and aspect) and topographical variables related to temperature (e.g., thermal belt, cold air drainage, and brightness index) were used. The coefficient of determination for the regression analysis ranged between 0.46 and 0.98. It was expected that the regression model could account for 70% of the spatial variation of the standard deviation when the monthly standard deviation was predicted by using the minimum-maximum effective range of topographical variables for the area.
Keywords
Topoclimatology; Geographical distribution; Standard deviation; Spatial variation; Regression model;
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