The development of a new set of long-term climate averages for the UK

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1023-1039

  Perry, Matthew ^a   Hollis, Daniel ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate normal; Gridded data; Long term average; Missing data estimation; Regression; Spatial interpolation; UK

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN; SNOW; SOILS; THUNDERSTORMS; WEBSITES;

GRIDDING STAGE; MET OFFICE OBSERVING NETWORK; MONTHLY STATION DATA; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE; CLIMATE MODELING; WEATHER;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 22144466600     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1160     Document Type: Article

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