Spatial variability in correlation decay distance and influence on angular-distance weighting interpolation of daily precipitation over Europe

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1872-1880

  Hofstra, Nynke ^a,b   New, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Correlation; Europe; Interpolation; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; CROSS VALIDATION; ENTIRE DOMAIN; EUROPE; IRREGULAR NETWORKS; METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATION; POINT ESTIMATE; PRECIPITATION; REGULAR GRIDS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STATION NETWORK;

INTERPOLATION;

CORRELATION; DIURNAL VARIATION; INTERPOLATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 70349862253     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1819     Document Type: Article

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