Precipitation data in a mountainous catchment in Honduras: Quality assessment and spatiotemporal characteristics

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 381-396

  Westerberg, I ^a,b   Walther, A ^c   Guerrero, J ^a,d   Coello, Z ^a,d   Halldin, S ^a   Xu, C ^a,e   Chen, D ^c   Lundin, L ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b IVL SWEDISH ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF HONDURAS   (Honduras)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; CATCHMENT; DATA QUALITY; KRIGING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUALITY CONTROL; RIVER BASIN; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CHOLUTECA RIVER; HONDURAS;

EID: 77955092694     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-009-0222-x     Document Type: Article

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