Maureen,

I believe we met in Savannah a couple of years ago.  If you don't mind,
could you send me any responses you get as a summary?  Such seems useful to
know - how to best deal with boundary conditions.  It would seem from my
neophyte position that such would be easy to do.  First, you don't provide
any data from the adjacent land. Hence the estimation of the variogram won't
take anything but stream readings into account.  Second, when you provide a
grid to estimate over, only provide points that lay within the stream.  One
item you will want to consider is how you portray your grid.  Since a stream
is a self-contained entity, I would think that distance should be portrayed
as distance within the stream, distance as the water flows, not distance as
the crow flies.  Another aspect you may wish to consider is that streams
have direction.  Hence, it would seem unusual (with the exception of large
inflows) for downstream sites to ever have an effect on upstream sites.
This would suggest all sites should only look upstream for temperature
information.  The final item that comes to mind quickly is the influence of
inflow.  These will be sources of different temperatures than exist in the
main stream basin.  As such, it would seem that any major inflows should be
measured.

Hope that my thought help, and that you get the help you need from this
group.


Warren Schlechte

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Subject:        AI-GEOSTATS: Kriging a stream surface

 << File: vcard.vcf >> I am interested in using kriging to interpolate
temperature surfaces for
a stream that I work on, based on data from fixed point temperature
loggers along the length of the stream.  However, I am unsure if it is
possible to constrain the analysis within the stream boundaries.  I was
wondering if anyone with experience conducting these types of analyses
would have any suggestions about how to address this problem.
Thank you very much,
Maureen Walsh


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