Spatio-Temporal Kriging of Air Temperature for Evaporation Estimation

• Autorzy: Dlouhá Dagmar , Pospíšil Lukáš , Dubovský Viktor

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DOI

10.2478/mspe-2025-0037

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

This study focuses on the reconstruction of incomplete and spatially sparse air temperature data for the purpose of estimating evaporation from Lake Most – a large artificial reservoir in the Czech Republic with no natural inflow. The primary objective is to generate daily spatial temperature fields using spatio-temporal kriging and subsequently compute evaporation using a calibrated Hargreaves-Samani (HS) model. We utilize daily data from the years 2020-2022, collected from six low-cost microstations installed around the lake and from a nearby professional meteorological station (Kopisty, operated by the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute). Due to frequent outages, data coverage from the microstations ranges from 5% to 38%. To fill in missing values and estimate temperature over the lake surface, we apply a Gneiting covariance model. All computations are carried out in MATLAB using a in-house implementation. The reconstructed temperature fields exhibit realistic spatial structure and seasonal variability. Based on the interpolated daily mean, maximum, and minimum air temperatures, we compute daily and cumulative evaporation from the lake surface. The results show that even a sparse and unreliable sensor network can yield physically consistent inputs for evaporation estimation when combined with statistical interpolation. The proposed method is readily applicable to other reservoirs under limited measurement conditions and may support hydrological modeling and water balance analysis.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

evaporation; kriging; lake most; temperature; time series

• Wydawca: STE GROUP
• Czasopismo: Management Systems in Production Engineering
• Rocznik: 2025
• Tom: nr 3 (33)
• Strony: 388--392
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 22 poz., rys., tab.

Twórcy

autor

Dlouhá Dagmar

• VSB – Technical University Ostrava Faculty of Civil Engineering Department of Mathematics Ludvíka Podéště 1875/17, 708 00 Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4571-9006

autor

Pospíšil Lukáš

• VSB – Technical University Ostrava Faculty of Civil Engineering Department of Mathematics Ludvíka Podéště 1875/17, 708 00 Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9801-0538

autor

Dubovský Viktor

• VSB – Technical University Ostrava Faculty of Civil Engineering Department of Mathematics Ludvíka Podéště 1875/17, 708 00 Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9855-1692

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