Sentences with phrase «called kriging»

BEST uses a form of statistical extrapolation called kriging to extrapolate to where they have no thermometers.

They include the statistical approach called Kriging (a process which allows us to combine fragmented records in an optimum way), the scalpel (which identifies discontinuities and cuts the data at those points) and weighting (in which the program estimates numerically the reliability of a data segment and applies a weight that reduces the contribution of the poor samples).

One is called Kriging.

Cowtan and Way circumvent both problems by using an established geostatistical interpolation method called kriging — but they do not apply it to the temperature data itself (which would be similar to what GISS does), but to the difference between satellite and ground data.