A novel approach to precipitation series completion in climatological datasets: Application to Andalusia

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1525-1534

  Ramos Calzado, Petri ^a   Gomez Camacho J ^b   Perez Bernal F ^c   F Pita Lopez M ^b  

^a Instituto Nacional de Meterología   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Andalusia; Linear regression; Missing data estimation; Monthly precipitation time series; Precipitation uncertainty; Rainfall

Indexed keywords

ANDALUSIA; LINEAR REGRESSION; MISSING DATA ESTIMATION; MONTHLY PRECIPITATION TIME SERIES; PRECIPITATION UNCERTAINTY; RAINFALL;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANDALUCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ANDALUCIA;

EID: 53149132437     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1657     Document Type: Article

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