Estimation of long-term climate information at locations with short-term data records

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 915-923

  Sansom, John ^a   Tait, Andrew ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; MAPPING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLIMATE INFORMATION; LONG-TERM DATA;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATOLOGY; ESTIMATION METHOD; HISTORICAL RECORD; MAPPING METHOD;

EID: 3543138926     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(2004)043<0915:EOLCIA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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