Generation of synthetic climatologies for unobserved locations using predictor observations - the impact of predictor site distance
Sheffield P.M. ; Hopwood W.P.
Climatologies of weather related variables, such as temperature, rainfall and windspeed, for specific locations are used by a wide industrial base to meet varying needs, including the planning and design of buildings and structures, agricultural projects and the wind power generation industry. Unfortunately the location at interest rarely coincides with existing long term climatological observations. One solution would be the placement of an observational system at the location of interest. However the period of data required to form a reliable climatological value that samples all the variability is prohibitively long. A Feasibility Study has been conducted to investigate the usefulness of several methods of generating automatic "synthetic" climatologies for locations that are unobserved directly. One of the techniques identified to meet this requirement was the use observations from "predictor" sites, that surround the site of interest and have long enough data records to generate stable climatological statistics, that could be interpolated to generate a synthetic timeseries and consequently climatological statistics for the unobserved location. In ...
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