TITLE:
Mapping of Precipitation, Temperature and Evaporation Distributions in the Porsuk Basin Using Distant Forecasting Methods
AUTHORS:
Recep Bakış, Yıldırım Bayazıt, Hakan Uyguçgil, Cengiz Koç
KEYWORDS:
Geographical Information Systems, Inverse Distance Weighting, Ordinary Kriging, Meteorology, Porsuk Basin, Turkey
JOURNAL NAME:
Computational Water, Energy, and Environmental Engineering,
Vol.6 No.4,
September
7,
2017
ABSTRACT: Geographical data are of great importance in meteorology and climate science. These data can create the areal distribution models analyzed by spatial interpolation methods. The values of the areas without measurement data are estimated with these distribution models. In this study, distribution of meteorological parameters such as precipitation, temperature and evaporation in Porsuk basin, which is determined as research area, was investigated by Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW) and Ordinary Kriging methods. Actual meteorological data analyzed of the basin do not show a normal distribution statistically. Therefore, the data were firstly subjected to normalization and then analyzed according to the IDW and Ordinary Kriging methods to create distribution maps of precipitation, temperature and evaporation data. Quadratic mean error values were compared to investigate the reliability of analyzes. In this study, the analysis results of precipitation, temperature and evaporation data have been calculated by two different methods. Ordinary Kriging method has been determined as the method making the most accurate estimation.