Default versus configured-geostatistical modeling of suspended particulate matter in Potter Cove, West Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Fluids
• Main Authors: Neder, Camila, Sahade, Ricardo Jose, Abele, Doris, Pesch, Roland, Jerosch, Kerstin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI
• Subjects: GEOSTATISTICAL INTERPOLATION; BAYESIAN; GLACIAL RUN-OFF; SEDIMENT PLUME; NEIGHBORHOOD ANALYSIS; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Potter Cove; Argentina; Ricardo; Neder; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/142386

The glacier retreat observed during the last decades at Potter Cove (PC) causes an increasing amount of suspended particulate matter (SPM) in the water column, which has a high impact on sessile filter feeder? species at PC located at the West Antarctic Peninsula. SPM presents a highly-fluctuating dynamic pattern on a daily, monthly, seasonal, and interannual basis. Geostatistical interpolation techniques are widely used by default to generate reliable spatial information and thereby to improve the ecological understanding of environmental variables, which is often fundamental for guiding decision-makers and scientists. In this study, we compared the results of default and configured settings of three geostatistical algorithms (Simple Kriging, Ordinary Kriging, and Empirical Bayesian) and developed a performance index. In order to interpolate SPM data from the summer season 2010/2011 at PC, the best performance was obtained with Empirical Bayesian Kriging (standard mean = −0.001 and root mean square standardized = 0.995). It showed an excellent performance (performance index = 0.004), improving both evaluation parameters when radio and neighborhood were configured. About 69% of the models showed improved standard means when configured compared to the default settings following a here proposed guideline Fil: Neder, Camila. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal; Argentina Fil: Sahade, Ricardo Jose. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal; Argentina Fil: Abele, Doris. Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung; ...