Geostatistical modelling of air temperature in a mountainous region of Northern Spain

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 146, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 173-188

  Benavides, Raquel ^a   Montes, Fernando ^b   Rubio, Agustín ^b   Osoro, Koldo ^a  

^a Área de Cultivos Hortofrutícolas y Forestales   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climate; DEM; Kriging; Mapping; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; GEOSTATISTICS; KRIGING; MODELING; MOUNTAIN REGION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 34548120275     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2007.05.014     Document Type: Article

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