Application of GIS for the development of climatological air temperature maps: An example from Poland

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 43-50

  Ustrnul, Zbigniew ^a,b   Czekierda, Danuta ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b Institute of Meteorology and Water Management Maritime Branch Gdynia   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; INTERPOLATION;

CLIMATE MONITORING; DAILY TEMPERATURES; MAP CONSTRUCTIONS; PREDICTOR VARIABLES; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION METHOD; TEMPERATURE PARAMETERS; THERMAL CONDITION; UNIVERSAL KRIGING;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DIURNAL VARIATION; GIS; KRIGING; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WEATHER STATION;

POLAND [CENTRAL EUROPE];

EID: 18744403955     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482705001507     Document Type: Review

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