Spatial interpolation of large climate data sets using bivariate thin plate smoothing splines

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1684-1694

  Hancock, P A ^a   Hutchinson, M F ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate; Interpolation; Large data set; Multilevel method; Thin plate spline

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONTROL; DATA REDUCTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERPOLATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPATIAL VARIABLES CONTROL;

CLIMATE; GENERALISED CROSS VALIDATION (GCV); LARGE DATA SETS; MULTILEVEL METHODS; THIN PLATE SPLINES;

SPLINES;

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERPOLATION; OZONE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33746508440     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2005.08.005     Document Type: Article

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