Construction of a 10-min-gridded precipitation data set for the Greater Alpine Region for 1800-2003

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Efthymiadis, Dimitrios ^a   Jones, Philip D ^a   Briffa, Keith R ^a   Auer, Ingeborg ^b   Böhm, Reinhard ^b   Schöner, Wolfgang ^b   Frei, Christoph ^c   Schmidli, Jürg ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

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

^d Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STATISTICAL METHODS;

LONG-TERM CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINGAUGE; WEATHER STATION;

EID: 33144481309     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JD006120     Document Type: Article

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