Why Does It Always Rain on Me? A Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Precipitation in Austria

Nikolaus Umlauf, Georg J. Mayr, Jakob Messner, Achim Zeileis

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Abstract

It is popular belief that the weather is “bad” more frequently on weekends than on other days of the week and this is often perceived to be associated with an increased chance of rain. In fact, the meteorological literature does report some evidence for such human-induced weekly cycles although these findings are not undisputed. To contribute to this discussion, a modern data-driven approach using structured additive regression models is applied to a newly available high-quality data set for Austria. The analysis investigates how an ordered response of rain intensities is influenced by a (potential) weekend effect while adjusting for spatio-temporal structure
using spatially varying effects of overall level and seasonality patterns. The underlying data are taken from the HOMSTART project which provides daily precipitation quantities over a period of more than 60 years and a dense net of more than 50 meteorological stations all across Austria.
Original languageEnglish
JournalAustrian Journal of Statistics
Volume41
Issue number1
Pages (from-to)81–92
ISSN1026-597X
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Rainfall
  • Generalized Additive Model
  • Structured Additive Regression Model
  • Ordered Probit Model
  • HOMSTART
  • BayesX
  • R

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