The design, deployment and testing of Kriging models in GEOframe
Abstract. This work presents a package for the interpolation of climatological variables, such as temperature and precipitation, using Kriging techniques. The purposes of the study are (1) to present a geostatistical software easy to use and easy to plug-in in a hydrological model, (2) to show a practical example of an accurately designed software in the perspective of reproducible research, (3) to show the goodness of the software applications, in order to have a reliable alternative to other traditionally used tools. Ten 5 types of theoretical semivariograms and four types of Kriging were implemented and gathered into ObjectModelling System compliant components. The package provides real time optimization for semivariogram and kriging parameters. The software was tested using temperature and rainfall data retrieved from 97 meteorological stations in the Isarco River basin, Italy. For both variables, good interpolation results were obtained and then compared to the results from the R package, gstat.