An improved QC process for temperature in the daily cooperative weather observations

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 206-213

  Hubbard, Kenneth G ^a   Guttman, Nathaniel B ^b   You, Jinsheng ^a   Chen, Zhirong ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA PROCESSING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA QUALITY ASSESSMENT; DATA QUALITY ASSURANCE; SPATIAL REGRESSION QUALITY ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL REGRESSION TEST;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA PROCESSING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DATA QUALITY; QUALITY CONTROL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33847719883     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH1963.1     Document Type: Article

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