Guidelines for assessing the suitability of spatial climate data sets

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 707-721

  Daly, Christopher ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ANUSPLIN; Climate interpolation; Climate mapping; Cross validation; Daymet; Kriging; Precipitation; PRISM; Spatial climate data; Temperature

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; RAIN; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLIMATE DATA; COASTAL EFFECT; COLD AIR DRAINAGE; ELEVATION; HIGH-RESOLUTION CLIMATE DATA; INVERSION; TERRAIN INDUCED CLIMATE TRANSITION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATOLOGY; INTERPOLATION; KRIGING; MAPPING; SPATIAL DATA;

EID: 33646439129     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1322     Document Type: Article

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