A space‐time analysis of ground‐level ozone data

Abstract We examine hourly ozone data collected in connection with a model evaluation study for ozone transport in the San Joaquin Valley of California. A space‐time analysis of a subset of the data, 17 sites concentrated around the Sacramento area, indicates a relatively simple spatial covariance structure at night‐time, while the afternoon readings show a more complex spatial covariance, which is partly explained by observations from a single station with suspicious data. Simple separable space‐time covariance models do not appear applicable to these data.