Reference station networks for monitoring climatic change in the conterminous United States

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 5390-5395

  Vose, Russell S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTRAPOLATION; INTERPOLATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

HISTORICAL CLIMATOLOGY NETWORK; NEAR-TERM SUBSTITUTES; REFERENCE STATION NETWORKS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; WEATHER STATION;

EID: 31544456619     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3600.1     Document Type: Article

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