Estimating temperature normals for USCRN stations

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 1809-1817

  Sun, Bomin ^a   Peterson, Thomas C ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

COOP; Temperature normals; USCRN

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; INTERPOLATION; MONITORING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE MONITORING; ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES; TEMPERATURE NORMALS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATOLOGY; ESTIMATION METHOD; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WEATHER STATION;

EID: 28144446204     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1220     Document Type: Article

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