2.7 Empirical Bayesian kriging (EBK) model
In the present study, we used a robust novel interpolation method like Empirical Bayesian kriging (EBK) from the ArcGIS environment to confirm the robustness and visualize the spatial variability of meteorological variables and ETref. The EBK is a novel geostatistical interpolation technique that automating the utmost complicated feature of constructing a valid kriging model that can be thought of as the most challenging feature of spatial interpolation within the geostatistical method (Gupta et al., 2017). Moreover, unlike the other kriging approaches the EBK model need not adjust manually model variables rather it can automatically compute these variables within a manner of sub-setting and simulations (Gribov and Krivoruchko 2020)