Space-time modeling of environmental monitoring data |
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Authors: | Søren Lophaven Jacob Carstensen Helle Rootzén |
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Institution: | (1) Informatics and Mathematical Modeling, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark;(2) Department of Marine Ecology, National Environmental Research Institute of Denmark, Denmark |
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Abstract: | This study describes and applies statistical methods for space-time modeling of data from environmental monitoring programs, e.g., within areas such as climate change, air pollution and aquatic environment. Such data are often characterized by sparse sampling in both the temporal and spatial dimensions. In order to improve the amount of information on the physical system in question we suggest using statistical modeling methods for monitoring data. Model predictions combined with observations could be analyzed directly to assess the environmental state or as forcing functions for time series models and deterministic, hydrodynamic models. To illustrate the approach we applied the proposed modeling methods to data from the Danish and Swedish marine monitoring programs. Time series with a weekly resolution were predicted from observations of dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) from the Kattegat basin (1993–1997). DIN observations were sparse, irregularly distributed and comprised approximately 10% of the generated time series. |
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Keywords: | space-time modeling dissolved inorganic nitrogen Kattegat |
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