Evaluation of multisite synthetic data generated by spatial weather generator and long climate data series

Abstract

In this paper a new validation test for the spatial weather generator SWGEN producing the multisite daily time series of solar radiation, temperature and precipitation is presented. The method was tested by comparing statistics of 1000 years of generated data with extra long series of 35 years of observed weather parameters and 24 sites of meteorological stations for south-west Poland. The method evaluation showed that the means (sums) and variances of generated data were comparable with observed climatic data aggregated for months, seasons and years.