A high-resolution, gridded dataset for monthly temperature normals (1971-2000) in Sweden

Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography

Volumn 89 A, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 249-261

  Chen, Deliang ^a   Gong, Lebing ^b   Xu, Chong Yu ^c   Halldin, Sven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

1971 2000; Interpolation; Kriging; Monthly temperature normals; Sweden

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; INTERPOLATION; KRIGING; MULTIPLE REGRESSION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 36749079848     PISSN: 04353676     EISSN: 14680459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0459.2007.00324.x     Document Type: Article

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