An optimal method to estimate the spherical harmonic components of the surface air temperature

Environmetrics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 261-276

  Shen, Samuel S ^a,b   North, Gerald R ^c   Kim, Kwang Y ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mean square error; Noise forced EBM; Optimal weights; Sampling; Spherical harmonics; Surface air temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; NUMERICAL METHOD; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

EID: 0030448260     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-095x(199605)7:3<261::aid-env210>3.0.co;2-q     Document Type: Article

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