A comparison of hand- and spline-drawn precipitation maps for mountainous Montana

Water Resources Bulletin

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 393-405

  Custer, Stephan G ^a   Farnes, Phillip ^a   Wilson, John P ^a   Snyder, Robert D ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate; GIS; modeling statistics; mountains; plains; precipitation; spline

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; MAPS; NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PRECIPITATION MAPS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

EID: 0030128888     PISSN: 00431370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1996.tb03461.x     Document Type: Article

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