A complete daily precipitation database for northeast Spain: Reconstruction, quality control, and homogeneity

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1146-1163

  Vicente Serrano, Sergio M ^b   Beguería, Santiago ^a   López Moreno, Juan I ^b   García Vera, Miguel A ^c   Stepanek, Petr ^d  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^c Oficina de Planificación Hidrológica   (Spain)

^d CZECH HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Climatic change; Climatic variability; Daily precipitation; Database; Extreme events; Homogenization; Quality control; SNHT; Spain

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE DATA; CLIMATIC CHANGES; CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; DAILY PRECIPITATION; DATA GAP; EXTREME EVENTS; IMPROVED SPATIAL COHERENCE; INHOMOGENEITIES; NEAREST NEIGHBOUR; NORTHEAST SPAIN; PRECIPITATION CHARACTERISTICS; RAINY DAYS; RECONSTRUCTION PROCESS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STANDARD PROCEDURES; TEMPORAL COVERAGE;

BUILDINGS; CLIMATE MODELS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; OBSERVATORIES; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REPAIR; STANDARDIZATION; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

PROCESS CONTROL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA QUALITY; DATABASE; EXTREME EVENT; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUALITY CONTROL; RECONSTRUCTION;

SPAIN;

EID: 77954369077     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1850     Document Type: Article

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