Spatiotemporal mapping of temperature and precipitation for the development of a multidecadal climatic dataset for Wisconsin

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 742-757

  Serbin, Shawn P ^a   Kucharik, Christopher J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE OBSERVATIONS; CLIMATE STATIONS; COHERENT SPATIAL PATTERNS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DAILY TEMPERATURES; DATA SETS; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FOREST PRODUCTS; INVERSE DISTANCE WEIGHTING; LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENTS; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; RIGOROUS VALIDATION; SECOND ORDERS; SUMMER MONTHS; WEATHER SYSTEMS; WINTER MONTHS; WISCONSIN;

ECOSYSTEMS; ERRORS; INTERPOLATION;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; CORRELATION; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; MAPPING METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 67549147261     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAMC1986.1     Document Type: Article

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