Volume 64, Issue 5
Original Article

A spatiodynamic model for assessing frost risk in south‐eastern Australia

K. Shuvo Bakar

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Yale University, New Haven, USA

Address for correspondence: K. Shuvo Bakar, Department of Statistics, Yale University, 24 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511‐6814, USA. E‐mail: shuvo.bakar@yale.eduSearch for more papers by this author
Philip Kokic

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australia

University of Wollongong, Australia

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Huidong Jin

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australia

Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

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First published: 29 April 2015
Citations: 6

Summary

Previous climate research concluded that causal influences which have contributed to changes in frost risk in south‐eastern Australia include greenhouse gas concentration, El‐Niño southern oscillation and other effects. Some of the climatic indices representing these effects have spatiotemporal misalignment and may have a spatially and temporally varying effect on observed data. Other indices are constructed from grid‐referenced physical models, which creates a point‐to‐area problem. To address these issues we use a spatiodynamic model, which comprises a blending of spatially varying and temporally dynamic parameters. For the data that we examine the model proposed performs well in out‐of‐sample validation compared with a spatiotemporal model.

Number of times cited according to CrossRef: 6

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