Comparison of regression techniques for mapping fog frequency: Application to the Aragón region (northeast Spain)

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 935-945

  Vicente Serrano, S M ^a   Lopez Moreno J I ^a   Vega Rodriguez M I ^a   Begueria S ^b   Cuadrat, José M ^c  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arag n; Fog frequency; Fog mapping; General additive models; Interpolation; Non linearity; Ordinary least squares regression; Splines

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIABLES; CLIMATIC VARIABLES; COMPLEX NATURE; CURVE SHAPE; DEPENDENT VARIABLES; GENERAL ADDITIVE MODELS; LINEAR MODEL; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MODEL PREDICTION; MOUNTAINOUS AREA; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; NON-LINEARITY; NORTHEAST SPAIN; ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES; ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION; REGRESSION TECHNIQUES; SEASONAL DIFFERENCES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION;

CLIMATE MODELS; INTERPOLATION; LANDFORMS; LINEARIZATION; MAPPING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPLINES;

FOG;

FOG; INTERPOLATION; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MAPPING; NONLINEARITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TERRAIN;

ARAGON; SPAIN;

EID: 77951908761     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1935     Document Type: Article

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