Hierarchical integrated spatial process modeling of monotone West Antarctic snow density curves

DOI10.1214/21-AOAS1443zbMATH Open1477.62326arXiv2001.05520MaRDI QIDQ2245128FDOQ2245128

Authors: Philip A. White, Durban G. Keeler, Summer Rupper 

Publication date: 15 November 2021

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Snow density estimates below the surface, used with airplane-acquired ice-penetrating radar measurements, give a site-specific history of snow water accumulation. Because it is infeasible to drill snow cores across all of Antarctica to measure snow density and because it is critical to understand how climatic changes are affecting the world's largest freshwater reservoir, we develop methods that enable snow density estimation with uncertainty in regions where snow cores have not been drilled. In inland West Antarctica, snow density increases monotonically as a function of depth, except for possible micro-scale variability or measurement error, and it cannot exceed the density of ice. We present a novel class of integrated spatial process models that allow interpolation of monotone snow density curves. For computational feasibility, we construct the space-depth process through kernel convolutions of log-Gaussian spatial processes. We discuss model comparison, model fitting, and prediction. Using this model, we extend estimates of snow density beyond the depth of the original core and estimate snow density curves where snow cores have not been drilled. Along flight lines with ice-penetrating radar, we use interpolated snow density curves to estimate recent water accumulation and find predominantly decreasing water accumulation over recent decades.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.05520

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zbMATH Keywords

Bayesian statisticsGaussian processspatial statisticsmonotonic regressionspline

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inference from spatial processes (62M30) Gaussian processes (60G15) Applications of statistics to environmental and related topics (62P12) Numerical computation using splines (65D07) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10)

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Cited In (4)

• Multivariate spatio‐temporal modelling for assessing Antarctica's present‐day contribution to sea‐level rise
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Uses Software

• Stan

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