Validating daily climate interpolations over complex terrain in Austria

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 119, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 87-107

  Hasenauer, Hubert ^a   Merganicova, Katarina ^a   Petritsch, Richard ^a   Pietsch, Stephan A ^a   Thornton, Peter E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Biometeorology; DAYMET; Ecosystem modeling; Precipitation; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPLEX TERRAIN; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 0344237416     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(03)00114-X     Document Type: Article

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