Analysis and comparison of spatial interpolation methods for temperature data in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China英文文献资料.docVIP

Vol.3, No.12, 999-1010 (2011) Natural Science /10.4236/ns.2011.312125 Analysis and comparison of spatial interpolation methods for temperature data in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China Huixia Chai , Weiming Cheng , Chenghu Zhou , Xi Chen , Xiaoyi Ma , Shangming Zhao 1* 1 1 2 1 2 1 State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research CAS, Beijing, China; Corresponding Author: chaihx@ Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography CAS, Urumqi, China. * 2 Received 24 October 2011; revised 20 November 2011; accepted 7 December 2011. ABSTRACT tribution and spatial variability on the accuracy of the interpolation methods will be tested and analyzed in the future. Spatial interpolation methods are frequently used to estimate values of meteorological data in locations where they are not measured. However, very little research has been investi- gated the relative performance of different in- terpolation methods in meteorological data of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang). Actually, it has importantly practical signifi- cance to as far as possibly improve the accu- racy of interpolation results for meteorological data, especially in mountainous Xinjiang. There- fore, this paper focuses on the performance of Keywords: Spatial Interpolation Method; Cross validation; Monthly Mean Temperature; Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region 1. INTRODUCTION Many researchers in different countries or various or- ganizations from all over the world have put much effort into interpolating the meteorological data [1-9]. Meas- urements of meteorological data (e.g. temperature, hu- midity, wind speed and rainfall) at higher resolution are available