An estimate of the sampling error variance of the gridded GHCN monthly surface air temperature data

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2321-2331

  Shen, Samuel S P ^a,b   Yin, H ^a   Smith, T M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CORRELATION FACTOR; ERROR VARIANCE; GLOBAL HISTORICAL CLIMATOLOGICAL NETWORK;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CORRELATION; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34250614231     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4121.1     Document Type: Article

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