Generating surfaces of daily meteorological variables over large regions of complex terrain
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...…sets of high-resolution climate surfaces for the conterminous United States: the 1- km-resolution Daymet database of means for 1980–1997 (http://www.daymet.org/; Thornton et al., 1997) and the 2.5 arc min (∼5 km) PRISM climate database for 1970–2000 (http://www.ocs.orst.edu/; Daly et al., 2002)....
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...Thornton et al. (1997) used a truncated Gaussian weighting filter in combination with spatially and temporally explicit empirically determined relationships of temperature and precipitation to elevation....
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...…for the United * Correspondence to: Robert J. Hijmans, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA, USA; e-mail: rhijmans@berkeley.edu Copyright 2005 Royal Meteorological Society States (http://www.daymet.org/; Thornton et al., 1997)....
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...We then used SPLINA to build continuous climate surfaces for the training data and interrogated these surfaces for the locations of the test data....
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...Weather station data were assembled from a large number of sources: (1) The Global Historical Climate Network Dataset (GHCN) version 2....
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...Simultaneous with increasing accessibility of species’ occurrence data, environmental data layers of high spatial resolution, such as those derived from satellite images (Turner et al. 2003) and through sophisticated interpolation of climate data ( Thornton et al. 1997, Hijmans et al. 2005), are now much more abundant and available....
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...…of species’ occurrence data, environmental data layers of high spatial resolution, such as those derived from satellite images (Turner et al. 2003) and through sophisticated interpolation of climate data (Thornton et al. 1997, Hijmans et al. 2005), are now much more abundant and available....
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...Regression methods are e.g. applied to infer the distribution of biological entities from environmental variables by considering these observations to be independent from each other....
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...Here, our aim is not to summarize all the patterns and processes of geographic range limitation, which are best provided by specific review papers (e.g. Brown et al., 1996), but to illustrate the link with the conceptual model formulation through examples....
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...Most bioclimatic maps are developed by elevation-sensitive spatial interpolations of climate station data (Hutchinson and Bischof, 1983; Daly et al., 1994; Thornton et al., 1997)....
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...Accuracy and resolution of input maps Yet, the generation of large-scale climate maps has been greatly improved (Hutchinson and Bischof, 1983; Mitchell, 1991; Daly et al., 1994; Thornton et al., 1997)....
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...…context (in the sense of Fitzgerald and Lees, 1994a), such as regional autocorrelation and topographic dependencies, have been employed to generate a multitude of bioclimatic maps (Hutchinson and Bischof, 1983; Daly et al., 1994; Dubayah and Rich, 1995; Kumar et al., 1997; Thornton et al., 1997)....
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...PRISM spatial climate data sets were compared to two other spatial climate data sets of similar resolution for the conterminous United States: Daymet (Thornton et al., 1997) and WorldClim (Hijmans et al....
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...Interpolation was performed with the Daymet model (Thornton et al., 1997)....
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...Here, regression analyses are repeatedly applied within a moving window over the geographic range of interest (e.g., DAYMET climate modelling, Thornton et al. 1997)....
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...DAYMET climate modeling, Thornton et al., 1997). The study by Huntley et al. (1995) is one of the rare examples of this approach applied to species distribution modeling....
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...For example, whereas Daly et al. (1994) have stressed the importance of an explicit accounting of the influence of leeward and windward aspect in distributing precipitation in mountainous terrain, we find that our methods faithfully reproduce the extreme differences in precipitation gradient on the…...
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...A recent example in this vein is the work of Daly et al. (1994), who have developed what can be considered a hybrid approach for distributing climatological precipitation, combining geographical and statistical elements, which they demonstrate to be both more flexible and more accurate than kriging…...
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...…spatial and temporal smoothing scales associated with regressions against elevation are in agreement with results reported for precipitation-elevation regressions by Daly et al. (1994), who suggested an optimal DEM cell-size of 4-10 km, compared with our result of 2-8 km for the smoothing width....
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...…the incorporation of the iterative station density algorithm, is a trait it shares with the smoothing splines method as implemented by Hutchinson (1995), the recursive filter objective analysis of Hayden and Purser ( 1995), and to some extent the topographic facet logic of Daly et al. (1994)....
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...Studies ranging in spatial scale from point simulations (Running and Coughlan, 1988; Running, 1994), to single watershed simulations (Band et al....
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...Previous studies (Running and Coughlan, 1988; McMurtrie et al., 1992) have defined the minimum required daily meteorological variables for accurate simulations of hydrological and ecological land-surface processes, as follows: precipitation, surface air temperature, surface air humidity, and incident shortwave radiation....
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...Studies ranging in spatial scale from point simulations (Running and Coughlan, 1988; Running, 1994), to single watershed simulations (Band et al., 1991, 1993; White and Running, 1994), to simulations over areas on the order of 1-2000 kln2 (Running and Nemani, 1991, Nemani et al., 1993), have…...
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...Previous studies (Running and Coughlan, 1988; McMurtrie et al., 1992) have defined the minimum required daily meteorological variables for accurate simulations of hydrological and ecological land-surface processes, as follows: precipitation, surface air temperature, surface air humidity, and…...
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...The method of nearest neighbors (Thiessen, 1911 ) is an early example, and others include multiple nearest neighbors, inverse-distance weighting schemes, and arithmetic means....
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...Spatially and temporally explicit empirical analyses of the relationships of temperature and precipitation to elevation were performed, and the characteristic spatial and temporal scales of these relationships were explored....
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...The algorithm of Bristow and Campbell (1984) is used to derive a daily average cloudiness correction to atmospheric transmissivity from the observed diurnal temperature range, DTR, as...
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...The algorithm of Bristow and Campbell (1984) is used to derive a daily average cloudiness correction to atmospheric transmissivity from the observed diurnal temperature range, DTR, as PCST= 1.0-exp( -BDTRc) (5) where PCST is the proportion of clear-sky transmissivity on the day in question, and B…...
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...Incident shortwave radiation is derived from the diurnal temperature range and Sun- Earth geometry , after the methods of Bristow and Campbell (1984)....
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...Some examples are optimal interpolation (Gandin, 1965), kriging and its variants (e.g. Phillips et al., 1992), and smoothing splines (Hutchinson and Bischof, 1983)....
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