Method Error statistic Belg season Kiremt season
Simple kriging (SK) RMSE 9.30 79.42
ME –1.88 –2.82
Universal kriging (UK) RMSE 9.82 81.56
ME 0.73 3.71
Ordinary kriging (OK) RMSE 8.12 45.21
ME 0.01 1.01
Radial Basis Function (RBF) RMSE 17.04 65.89
ME 0.01 1.73
Local Polynomial Interpolator (LPI) RMSE 21.01 86.03
ME 1.04 5.03
Global Polynomial Interpolator (GPI) RMSE 26.9 82.31
ME 0.12 3.66
Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW) RMSE 22.18 81.38
ME 0.67 19.61
Table 6: Summary of error estimators for prediction of mean seasonal rainfall.