Arequipa Climate Maps – Normals

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By Andre Geraldo de Lima Moraes1ORCID logo, Laura C Bowling1ORCID logo, Carlos Renzo Zeballos Velarde2ORCID logo, Keith A Cherkauer1ORCID logo

1. Purdue University 2. Universidad Nacional de San Agustin de Arequipa - UNSA

Arequipa Climate Maps – Normals, is a dataset containing 30-year averages of annual and monthly climatology derived from observations of daily air temperature, and precipitation for the Arequipa department in Peru.

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Version 2.0 - published on 09 Sep 2021 doi:10.4231/JNBK-ZK34 - cite this Archived on 10 Oct 2021

Licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal

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Climate is a powerful driver of agricultural and natural systems, and spatial climate data sets in digital form are currently in great demand. This is especially true in the Arequipa department of Peru, a region with low seasonal precipitation, significant topographic variability, and high demand for water use in highly managed water systems. This dataset contains 30-year average annual and average annual monthly maps of cumulative precipitation, and average, minimum and maximum daily air temperature from January 1, 1988 to December 31, 2017. It was created using weather station data from the Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología del Perú (SENAMHI) and National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Global Summary of the Day (GSOD). Topography data, used as covariates, came from ALOS World 3D DEM. Weather data went through extensive preprocessing for removal of implausible values, data gap filling, and inhomogeneity detection. Maps were created using a Regression Thin-Plate Splines (RTPS) method that made use of Polynomial Regression Models specifically developed for the region.

A manuscript entitled “Terrain sensitive climate maps for Arequipa region, Peru,” is under development and will bring more information about the development of this dataset.

This dataset was developed by the  Center for Sustainable Watershed Management of the Arequipa Nexus Institute (https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/arequipa-nexus/en/index.php)

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ACM-N version 2 expanded it's spatial coverage to all watersheds that are at least partially contained in the Arequipa department and run to the pacific ocean; made improvements to data quality checking, data gap-filling, and inhomogeneity detection processes applied to the source data; introduced a new regression to represent precipitation spatial trends that helps compensate for the weather station bias at higher elevations; substituted Ordinary kriging for Thin-Plate Splines for Interpolation of residues.

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