Estimation of spatial degrees of freedom of a climate field

Journal of Climate

Volumn 12, Issue 5 I, 1999, Pages 1280-1291

  Wang, Xiaochun ^a,c   Shen, Samuel S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

SUMMER; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE; WINTER;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATOLOGY; ESTIMATION METHOD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0032853505     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<1280:EOSDOF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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