Table 3 Performance of models in predicting hourly temperature in different climates during kharif and rabi seasons.

From: Identifying appropriate prediction models for estimating hourly temperature over diverse agro-ecological regions of India

Climate type

Kharif season (28 locations)

Rabi season (27 locations)

WAVE model

PL model

Soygro model

Temperature model

WAVE model

PL model

Soygro model

Temperature model

Warm Per-humid

1

1

Hot humid and sub-humid

1

2

Warm sub-humid

3

2

1

2

Hot sub-humid

7

2

1

9

Hot semi-arid

4

7

1

2

8

Hot arid

1