Spatial prediction of climatic state factor regions in Alaska

Ecoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 490-501

  Hammond, Tim ^a   Yarie, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Climate zones; Climatic state factors; Spatial interpolation; Universal kriging

Indexed keywords

BIOCLIMATE; CLIMATIC ZONE; PRECIPITATION; TEMPERATURE;

CANADA; USA, ALASKA;

EID: 0030316929     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.1996.11682368     Document Type: Article

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