Estimation of Areal Mean Rainfall in Remote Areas Using B-SHADE Model

Table 3

MEs for the arithmetic average, Thiessen polygon, ordinary kriging, and B-SHADE methods by counting all the months from January 2005 to December 2011.

Number of stations	Arithmetic average (mm)	Thiessen polygon (mm)	OK (mm)	B-SHADE (mm)
2	0.56	−0.56	—	−1.59
3	4.57	2.32	3.43	−2.30
4	5.58	2.78	4.84	−1.55
5	9.84	4.20	6.78	−1.43
6	5.74	2.17	4.52	−1.43
7	4.06	2.33	2.51	−1.33
8	3.11	1.35	1.67	−1.00
9	4.16	1.58	2.73	−1.07
10	4.58	1.59	2.70	−1.07
11	7.13	1.89	3.10	−0.81
12	6.67	1.81	2.79	−0.61
13	7.01	2.03	2.93	−0.57
14	7.11	−1.43	2.89	−0.63