General Objective: Develop a HadCM3 numerical model that reproduces the climate model through satellite images in the Infrared spectrum on specific sectors in Continental Ecuador of high environmental or productive importance.
Specific objectives:
- Choose an area in Ecuador with 100% IR (Infra-Red) satellite image coverage of its territory, and with a time series of at least 100 images for 5 consecutive years.
- Obtain new algorithms using spectral methods, wavelets, and finite elements, that meet stability and convergence conditions for the processing of satellite images in the IR and that allow the prediction of temperature variation and cloudiness concentration over the target area, with an error of less than 5%.
- Compare the total error, the stability and convergence characteristics of the model generated through the algorithm developed with the models and studies previously carried out by the National Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology (INAHMI).
- Analyze the variation of temperature, cloud concentration and Solar Radiation Intensity and determine environmental and productive consequences of the generated prediction.
Participating Institutions:
ESPE, ESPOL, UDLA.
Participants:
- MSc. Frederick Rhodes
- MSc. Francisca Flores
- PhD. magdalena lopez
- PhD. Nikolai Espinoza
Awarded budget: $29440
Project status: Process – Signature of Agreement.
