A new instrumental precipitation dataset for the greater alpine region for the period 1800-2002

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 139-166

  Auer, Ingeborg ^a   Böhm, Reinhard ^a   Jurković, Anita ^a   Orlik, Alexander ^a   Potzmann, Roland ^a   Schöner, Wolfgang ^a   Ungersböck, Markus ^a   Brunetti, Michele ^b   Nanni, Teresa ^b   Maugeri, Maurizio ^c   Briffa, Keith ^d   Jones, Phil ^d   Efthymiadis, Dimitrios ^d   Mestre, Olivier ^e   Moisselin, Jean Marc ^e   Begert, Michael ^f   Brazdil, Rudolf ^g   Bochnicek, Oliver ^h   Cegnar, Tanja ⁱ   Gaji ́Čapka, Marjana ^j   Zaninović, Ksenija ^j   Majstorović, Željko ^k   Szalai, Sándor ^l   Szentimrey, Tamás ^l   Mercalli, Luca ^m   more..

^a ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^e MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

^f FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^g MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^h SHMU   (Slovakia)

ⁱ HMZS   (Slovenia)

^j DHMZ   (Croatia)

^k FMZ   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^l HMS   (Hungary)

^m SMI   (Italy)

more..

Author keywords

Greater alpine region; Homogeneity; Instrumental period; Monthly precipitation time series

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA REDUCTION; GAGES; METEOROLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SNOW; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS; PRECIPITATION GAUGES; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINGAUGE;

ALPS; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 20044377405     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1135     Document Type: Article

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