Homogeneity analysis of Turkish meteorological data set

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 981-992

  Sahin, Sinan ^a   Cigizoglu, H Kerem ^b  

^a NAMIK KEMAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Homogeneity; Meteorological data set; Missing value estimation; Temperature; Turkey

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; COOLING EFFECTS; DATA SETS; EM ALGORITHMS; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; HOMOGENEITY ANALYSIS; INHOMOGENEITIES; LEVEL-1; LOW CORRELATION; MEAN AIR TEMPERATURES; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; METEOROLOGICAL DATA SET; MISSING VALUE ESTIMATION; MISSING VALUES; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SEA BREEZE; SHORT DISTANCES; TEMPERATURE SERIES; TEMPERATURE VARIABLES; TOTAL PRECIPITATION; TURKISHS;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; AUTOCORRELATION;

TESTING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DATA SET; HOMOGENEITY; INTERPOLATION; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RELATIVE HUMIDITY;

TURKEY;

EID: 77951683894     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7534     Document Type: Article

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