Evaluation and Optimization of Weather Networks in Athabasca Oil Sands Region ...

• Main Author: Deshmukh, Dhananjay
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Schulich School of Engineering 2023
• Subjects: correlation analysis; similarity analysis; weather network optimization; wind speed and direction; rationalization; Athabasca river basin; weather; redundancy; climate; Engineering; Engineering > Environmental; Athabasca River
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/prism/40703; https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/115798

The monitoring of weather is required for climate studies, research, and forecasting. For the monitoring purpose, three networks of 19 stations i.e., Water Quantity Program (WQP), Meteorological Towers (MT), and Edge Sites (ES) were operational in Athabasca oil sands region. The overall objective of the study was to identify similarities/redundancies in meteorological observations for the optimization of weather networks. For this, firstly similarity among meteorological parameters have been quantified for air temperature (AT), relative humidity (RH), solar radiation (SR), barometric pressure (BP), precipitation (PR), and snow depth (SD) among station-pairs of each network. In this process, Pearson’s correlation coefficient (r) and average absolute error (AAE) were the best representative measures from the methods of association and coincidence while proposed percentage of similarity (PS%) was the best in comparison to r and AAE to quantify the similarity. Further, RH found to be the least variable with ...