Research Article

Evaluation of Seven Gap-Filling Techniques for Daily Station-Based Rainfall Datasets in South Ethiopia

Table 6

Performance evaluation results of gap-filling techniques in Shone station before and after empirical quantile mapping plus.

Performance evaluation criteriaGap-filling techniques
SAMNRMCCWIDWMLREQM

Before empirical quantile mapping plus
MAE (mm)4.04.04.04.04.44.3
RMSE (mm)7.37.37.37.46.98.5
SS (unitless)0.10.10.10.00.2−0.3
R (unitless)0.40.40.40.40.40.3

After empirical quantile mapping plus (EQM+)
MAE (mm)4.04.04.04.04.64.2
RMSE (mm)7.27.27.17.26.98.1
SS (unitless)0.10.10.10.10.2−0.2
R (unitless)0.40.40.40.40.40.3

MAE, RMSE, SS, and R, are mean absolute error, root mean square error, skill score, and Person’s correlation coefficients, respectively.