A Comparison of Interpolation Methods for Estimation of Air Temperature

Abstract

The present article deals with the estimation of air temperature with selected spatial interpolation methods. There are a number of methods of spatial interpolation, which allows to estimate the values if they are not available measurement data. One of the important indicators for many practical analyses is the air temperature. It is well known fact that the air temperature is dependent on the altitude. However, not all of the interpolation methods in their algorithms allow to take into account this important factor that can significantly affect the final estimate. For the estimation of air temperature were chosen method IDS (Inverse Distance Squared) and its modification GIDS (gradient plus inverse distance squared) and GIDS-a. The first method was implemented directly in the software. For the method GIDS and - a GIDS was created application through VBA.