Abstract

DELGADO-TELLEZ, Ricardo  and  PENA-DE LA CRUZ, Arisleidys. Cartography of climate variables using gradients, expert systems and GIS. Rev. Cubana Met. [online]. 2019, vol.25, n.2  Epub June 01, 2019. ISSN 2664-0880.

A method is presented for the generation of continuous maps of climatic variables in complex relief zones by using gradients, reference weather stations and expert criteria. This proposal uses a geographic information system to describe the geographic factors forming that form microclimates in the study region and fuzzy Mamdani inference models to integrate knowledge of local climate into an expert system. In this way it is possible to assign an arbitrary number of gradients and reference values to patterns describing locations within the study region. A case study for the variable minimum temperature is included in the study. In it maps at scales 1:250000 and 1:100000 of the variable for the eastern region of Cuba were generated. The process is fully automated, requiring human intervention only for cartographic improvement purposes of the final maps.

Keywords : Mountain climate; mapping; expert system.

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