Mapping monthly precipitation, temperature, and solar radiation for Ireland with polynomial regression and a digital elevation model

Climate Research

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 35-49

  Goodale, Christine L ^a   Aber, John D ^a   Ollinger, Scott V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate grids; DEM; GIS; Interpolation; Regional modeling

Indexed keywords

DEM; GIS; MAPPING; PRECIPITATION; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE;

IRELAND;

EID: 0031870942     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr010035     Document Type: Article

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