scholarly journals Comparison between evapotranspiration estimation models for Macapá, Amapá

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
G. S. Picanço ◽  
O. S. Nascimento ◽  
W. C. M. Silva ◽  
O. B. Q. Oliveira Filho

The aim of the study was to evaluate evapotranspiration (ET) estimation models for the municipality of Macapá, AP. The models studied were Hargreaves-Samani (HS), Turc, Camargo (CM), Jensen-Haise (JH) and Solar Radiation (RS). The ET estimated by the models were compared with those obtained by the standard Penman-Monteith method. Statistical tests of Willmot's Concordance index (d), Correlation Coefficient (r), Performance coefficient (c), Mean Absolute Error (EAM), Mean Square Error and Residual Mass Coefficient (CMR) were performed. With the results of "c" only HS, in August (c = 0.71; "good") and December (c = 0.73; "good") presented a performance considered good. JH had the worst result, between 0.05 and 0.22, considered terrible. In relation to “d”, HS also had a better result, with 0.79 and 0.83 in August and December. The worst was JH, with a minimum value of 0.09 for May. For CMR, CM, JH and RS overestimated ET. TC, on the other hand, presented both underestimation and overestimation. HS overestimated from January to July and underestimated in the other months. For EAM, the models tended to overestimate ET. For MSE, HS presented the lowest values. JH was the one with the worst results, above 4. And the coefficient of determination showed a small dispersion of data, with R2 above 0.90 for HS, TC, JH and RS. Based on what was exposed, HS was the method that presented the best responses, followed by CT and RS. And JH was the one with the highest overestimation rate.

Author(s):  
O. M. Pokrovsky

The results of analysis of climatic series of global and regional cloudiness for 1983–2009. Data were obtained in the framework of the international satellite project ISCCP. The technology of statistical time series analysis including smoothing algorithm and wavelet analysis is described. Both methods are intended for the analysis of non-stationary series. The results of the analysis show that both global and regional cloudiness show a decrease of 2–6%. The greatest decrease is observed in the tropics and over the oceans. Over land, the decrease is minimal. The correlation coefficient between the global cloud series on the one hand and the global air and ocean surface temperature series on the other hand reaches values (–0.84) — (–0.86). The coefficient of determination that characterizes the accuracy of the regression for the prediction of global temperature changes based on data on changes in the lower cloud, in this case is 0.316.


2014 ◽  
Vol 543-547 ◽  
pp. 1844-1847
Author(s):  
Si Min Zhu ◽  
Hai Yun Deng ◽  
Kai Zheng ◽  
Hua Mei Li ◽  
Xiao Zhou Chen

It is known that the level of the consistency-order of initial value problem is an important standard to determine whether the constructed methods for solving initial value problem of ODEs is suitable or not. There are two methods to solve the consistency-order of initial value problem in general. The one is using the remainder of integral formula as local truncated error, and the other one is using absolute error as local truncated error. In the paper, we propose a novel method based on Gauss-Legendre quadrature formula. It use the method of the remainder of integral formula as local truncated error exists in most of the literatures, and it will be solved once again for the consistency-order of the constructed methods that exist in currently literatures by using absolute error as local truncated error, and then draw a conclusion that is differ from what has been proved correspondingly.


2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 1129-1147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ciril Bosch-Rosa ◽  
Thomas Meissner

Abstract Experiments involving games have two dimensions of difficulty for subjects in the laboratory. One is understanding the rules and structure of the game and the other is forming beliefs about the behavior of other players. Typically, these two dimensions cannot be disentangled as belief formation crucially depends on the understanding of the game. We present the one-player guessing game, a variation of the two-player guessing game (Grosskopf and Nagel 2008), which turns an otherwise strategic game into an individual decision-making task. The results show that a majority of subjects fail to understand the structure of the game. Moreover, subjects with a better understanding of the structure of the game form more accurate beliefs of other player’s choices, and also better-respond to these beliefs.


2017 ◽  
Vol 63 (238) ◽  
pp. 372-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
JEAN RABAULT ◽  
GRAIG SUTHERLAND ◽  
OLAV GUNDERSEN ◽  
ATLE JENSEN

ABSTRACTVersatile instruments assembled from off-the-shelf sensors and open-source electronics are used to record wave propagation and damping measured by Inertial Motion Units (IMUs) in a grease ice slick near the shore in Adventfjorden, Svalbard. Viscous attenuation of waves due to the grease ice slick is clearly visible by comparing the IMU data recorded by the different instruments. The frequency dependent spatial damping of the waves is computed by comparing the power spectral density obtained from the different IMUs. We model wave attenuation using the one-layer model of Weber from 1987. The best-fit value for the effective viscosity is ν = (0.95 ± 0.05 × 10−2)m2 s−1, and the coefficient of determination is R2 = 0.89. The mean absolute error and RMSE of the damping coefficient are 0.037 and 0.044m−1, respectively. These results provide continued support for improving instrument design for recording wave propagation in ice-covered regions, which is necessary to this area of research as many authors have underlined the need for more field data.


Author(s):  
Babacar Alasane Ndaw ◽  
Ousmane Ndiaye ◽  
Mamadou Sanghar´e ◽  
Cheikh Thi´ecoumba Gueye

One family of the cryptographic primitives is random Number Generators (RNG) which have several applications in cryptography such that password generation, nonce generation, Initialisation vector for Stream Cipher, keystream. Recently they are also used to randomise encryption and signature schemes. A pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) or a pseudo-random bit generator (PRBG) is a deterministic algorithm that produces numbers whose distribution is on the one hand indistinguishable from uniform ie. that the probabilities of appearance of the different symbols are equal and that these appearances are all independent. On the other hand, the next output of a PRNG must be unpredictable from all its previous outputs. Indeed, A set of statistical tests for randomness has been proposed in the literature and by NIST to evaluate the security of random(pseudo) bit or block. Unfortunately there are non-random binary streams that pass these standardized tests. In this pap er, as outcome, we intro duce on the one hand a new statistical test in a static contextcalled attendance’s law and on the other hand a distinguisher based on this new attendance’s law.    


Irriga ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 538-551
Author(s):  
João Guilherme Araújo Lima ◽  
Paula Carneiro Viana ◽  
José Espínola Sobrinho ◽  
João Paulo Chaves Couto

COMPARAÇÃO DE MÉTODOS DE ESTIMATIVA DE ETO E ANÁLISE DE SENSIBILIDADE PARA DIFERENTES CLIMAS BRASILEIROS     JOÃO GUILHERME ARAÚJO LIMA1; PAULA CARNEIRO VIANA1; JOSÉ ESPÍNOLA SOBRINHO2 E JOÃO PAULO CHAVES COUTO3   1Departamento de Engenharia Civil, UNINASSAU, BR 104, KM 68, N° 1215, Agamenon Magalhães, 55000-000, Caruaru, Pernambuco, Brasil. [email protected]; [email protected]; 2Departamento de Ciências Ambientais e Tecnológicas, UFERSA, Rua Francisco Mota, N° 572, Presidente Costa e Silva, 59625-900 Mossoró, Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil. [email protected]; 3Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Agrícola, Núcleo de Engenharia de Água e Solo, UFRB, Rua Rui Barbosa, N° 710, Centro, 44380-000, Cruz das Almas, Bahia, Brasil. E-mail: [email protected].     1 RESUMO    A estimativa da evapotranspiração de referência (ETo) tem grande importância para a agricultura e manejo da irrigação. O método Penman-Monteith é considerado padrão para estimativa da ETo. No entanto, por ser completo, o método padrão apresenta como desvantagem a necessidade de uma gama de variáveis meteorológicas. O objetivo dessa pesquisa foi, em escala diária, avaliar o desempenho dos métodos de Hargreaves-Samani, Makkink, Priestley-Taylor, Turc, Radiação FAO-24 e Blaney-Criddle, para as condições climáticas das seis regiões do Brasil. A verificação do desempenho desses modelos foi por meio da comparação ao método de Penman-Monteith. Para avaliar o desempenho dos métodos foi utilizada a raiz quadrada do quadrado médio do erro (RQME), erro absoluto médio (EAM), erro de estimativa (PE) e coeficiente de determinação (R2). Entre os métodos estudados, o de Turc foi o que apresentou melhores resultados para todos os climas do Brasil, exceto para o clima Tropical litorâneo. O método de Makkink foi o que apresentou melhor resultado para o clima Tropical litorâneo. A análise de sensibilidade revelou que a temperatura do ar e a radiação global são as variáveis mais importantes para o método do método Penman-Monteith, exceto para o município BL, em que a variável umidade relativa do ar foi a mais importante.   Palavras-Chave: irrigação, consumo de água, evapotranspiração.     LIMA, J. G. A.; VIANA, P. C.; SOBRINHO, J. E.; COUTO, J. P. C. COMPARISON OF ETO ESTIMATION METHODS AND SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS FOR DIFFERENT BRAZILIAN CLIMATES     2 ABSTRACT   Estimation of reference evapotranspiration (ETo) is of great importance for agriculture and irrigation management. The Penman-Monteith method is considered standard for estimating ETo. However, because it is complete, the standard method presents as a disadvantage the need for a range of meteorological variables. The objective of this research was to evaluate the performance of Hargreaves-Samani, Makkink, Priestley-Taylor, Turc, FAO-24 and Blaney-Criddle methods for the climatic conditions of the six Brazilian regions. The verification of the performance of these models was made by comparison to the Penman-Monteith method. To evaluate the performance of the methods, the square root of mean-square error (MSE), mean absolute error (MAE), error of estimate (EE) and coefficient of determination (R2) were used. Among the methods studied, that of Turc was the one that presented the best results for all the climates of Brazil, except for the tropical coastal climate. The Makkink method was the one that presented the best result for the coastal tropical climate. Sensitivity analysis revealed that air temperature and global radiation are the most important variables for the Penman-Monteith method, except for BL municipality, where the variable relative humidity was the most important.   Keywords: irrigation, water consumption, evapotranspiration.


Author(s):  
Rajaa A. Basheer ◽  
Dr. Waleed I. AL-Rijabo

The aim of this paper is to validate the data of three meteorological elements Air Temperature (Ta) , Relative Humidity (RH), Wind Speed (WS) from the European Center For-Medium Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF) , against ground stations data using several Models at six stations well distributed in Iraq (Mosul, Kirkuk, Baghdad, Kut, Nasiriya, and Basra). Due to the difficulties which experienced by the ground climate stations in Iraq from a shortage of devices and equipment for measuring the various climatic elements, which led to a huge shortage of data throughout time for political, economic and natural disasters. It is found that researchers can adopt the data of satellite stations to monitor the climate because let’s found that there is a highly significance Correlations between the data of these stations and the data of the ground stations for climate monitoring Five Mathematical Models were used for that [Linear Models, Quadratic Models, Exponential Models, Logarithmic Models, and Power Models]. The performance of these models were evaluated by comparing the calculated (Ta, RH, WS) from earth stations. Those mathematical correlations help to be able to calculate the ground data in state of there is no ground climate stations data. Several statistical tests Correlation Coefficient (R), Coefficient of Determination (R2), Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), Mean Absolute Error (MAE) were used to control the validation and goodness of these Models. The R2 obtained from these Models were very high in all stations. This means that, there is a highly significance Correlations between (Ta, RH, WS) estimated and [Ta, RH, WS] measured in all station


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 2331
Author(s):  
Mengying Cao ◽  
Ying Sun ◽  
Xin Jiang ◽  
Ziming Li ◽  
Qinchuan Xin

Vegetation phenology plays a key role in influencing ecosystem processes and biosphere-atmosphere feedbacks. Digital cameras such as PhenoCam that monitor vegetation canopies in near real-time provide continuous images that record phenological and environmental changes. There is a need to develop methods for automated and effective detection of vegetation dynamics from PhenoCam images. Here we developed a method to predict leaf phenology of deciduous broadleaf forests from individual PhenoCam images using deep learning approaches. We tested four convolutional neural network regression (CNNR) networks on their ability to predict vegetation growing dates based on PhenoCam images at 56 sites in North America. In the one-site experiment, the predicted phenology dated to after the leaf-out events agree well with the observed data, with a coefficient of determination (R2) of nearly 0.999, a root mean square error (RMSE) of up to 3.7 days, and a mean absolute error (MAE) of up to 2.1 days. The method developed achieved lower accuracies in the all-site experiment than in the one-site experiment, and the achieved R2 was 0.843, RMSE was 25.2 days, and MAE was 9.3 days in the all-site experiment. The model accuracy increased when the deep networks used the region of interest images rather than the entire images as inputs. Compared to the existing methods that rely on time series of PhenoCam images for studying leaf phenology, we found that the deep learning method is a feasible solution to identify leaf phenology of deciduous broadleaf forests from individual PhenoCam images.


1975 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 395-407
Author(s):  
S. Henriksen

The first question to be answered, in seeking coordinate systems for geodynamics, is: what is geodynamics? The answer is, of course, that geodynamics is that part of geophysics which is concerned with movements of the Earth, as opposed to geostatics which is the physics of the stationary Earth. But as far as we know, there is no stationary Earth – epur sic monere. So geodynamics is actually coextensive with geophysics, and coordinate systems suitable for the one should be suitable for the other. At the present time, there are not many coordinate systems, if any, that can be identified with a static Earth. Certainly the only coordinate of aeronomic (atmospheric) interest is the height, and this is usually either as geodynamic height or as pressure. In oceanology, the most important coordinate is depth, and this, like heights in the atmosphere, is expressed as metric depth from mean sea level, as geodynamic depth, or as pressure. Only for the earth do we find “static” systems in use, ana even here there is real question as to whether the systems are dynamic or static. So it would seem that our answer to the question, of what kind, of coordinate systems are we seeking, must be that we are looking for the same systems as are used in geophysics, and these systems are dynamic in nature already – that is, their definition involvestime.


Author(s):  
Stefan Krause ◽  
Markus Appel

Abstract. Two experiments examined the influence of stories on recipients’ self-perceptions. Extending prior theory and research, our focus was on assimilation effects (i.e., changes in self-perception in line with a protagonist’s traits) as well as on contrast effects (i.e., changes in self-perception in contrast to a protagonist’s traits). In Experiment 1 ( N = 113), implicit and explicit conscientiousness were assessed after participants read a story about either a diligent or a negligent student. Moderation analyses showed that highly transported participants and participants with lower counterarguing scores assimilate the depicted traits of a story protagonist, as indicated by explicit, self-reported conscientiousness ratings. Participants, who were more critical toward a story (i.e., higher counterarguing) and with a lower degree of transportation, showed contrast effects. In Experiment 2 ( N = 103), we manipulated transportation and counterarguing, but we could not identify an effect on participants’ self-ascribed level of conscientiousness. A mini meta-analysis across both experiments revealed significant positive overall associations between transportation and counterarguing on the one hand and story-consistent self-reported conscientiousness on the other hand.


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