Spatial interpolation of climatic Normals: Test of a new method in the Canadian boreal forest

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 211-225

  Nalder, Ian A ^a   Wein, Ross W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Canada; Climate interpolation; Kriging; Precipitation; Temperature

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; DATA PROCESSING; NUMERICAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE;

CANADA;

EID: 0032483944     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(98)00102-6     Document Type: Article

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