Comparison between some meteorological elements measured by ECMWF and Earth stations in different regions in Iraq


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

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A. Basheer, R, , AL-Rijabo, D, (2021). Comparison between some meteorological elements measured by ECMWF and Earth stations in different regions in Iraq. EUREKA: Physics and Engineering, 4, 41-49. doi:https://doi.org/10.21303/2461-4262.2021.001941