Representing twentieth-century space-time climate variability. Part I: Development of a 1961-90 mean monthly terrestrial climatology

Journal of Climate

Volumn 12, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 829-856

  New, Mark ^a   Hulme, Mike ^a   Jones, Phil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SOLAR RADIATION; VAPOR PRESSURE; WIND;

THIN-PLATE SPLINES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 0033102436     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<0829:rtcstc>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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