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Comparison of the Relevance and the Performance of Filling in Gaps Methods in Climate Datasets

  • Jada El KasriEmail author
  • Abdelaziz Lahmili
  • Ouadif Latifa
  • Lahcen Bahi
  • Halima Soussi
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Part of the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing book series (AISC, volume 913)

Abstract

The lack of values in a climatological series is a severe problem that can mislead and mistake scientific studies. The purpose of this study is to compare three methods of filling in the missing data; the simple arithmetic averaging (AA), Inverse distance interpolation (ID) and the multiple imputation (MI). The comparison of these methods was carried out on a list of mean monthly temperature that concerns one hydrological station localized in the basin of Souss, and was based on four evaluation criteria, namely root mean square error (RMSE), mean absolute errors (MAE), skill score (SS) and coefficient of efficiency (CE). The analysis shows the effectiveness of multiple imputation and the application of the performance criteria shows that MI had the lowest error measures, the best coefficient of efficiency and the best Skill Score. Therefore, we recommend the use of MI to resolve the gap in climatic datasets, especially large ones.

Keywords

Climate datasets MI Missing data MAR 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Jada El Kasri
    • 1
    Email author
  • Abdelaziz Lahmili
    • 1
  • Ouadif Latifa
    • 1
  • Lahcen Bahi
    • 1
  • Halima Soussi
    • 1
  1. 1.3GIE Laboratory, Mineral Engineering Department, Mohammadia Engineering SchoolMohammed V UniversityRabatMorocco

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