The generation of monthly gridded datasets for a range of climatic variables over the UK

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1041-1054

  Perry, Matthew ^a   Hollis, Daniel ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate; GIS; Gridded datasets; Regression; Spatial interpolation; UK

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN; STATISTICAL METHODS; TOPOLOGY;

CLIMATIC PARAMETERS; COASTAL EFFECTS; MONTHLY GRIDDED DATASETS; TEMPERATURE VARIABLES; WIND SPEED;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE; CLIMATE MODELING; GIS; WEATHER;

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

EID: 22144476240     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1161     Document Type: Article

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