Development and verification of daily gridded climate surfaces in the Okanagan Basin of British Columbia

Canadian Water Resources Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 131-154

  Neilsen, Denise ^a   Duke, Guy ^b   Taylor, Bill ^c   Byrne, Jim ^b   Kienzle, Stefan ^b   Van Der Gulik, Ted ^d  

^a SUMMERLAND RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d ANIMAL HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CLIMATE DATA; CLIMATE STATIONS; CROSS VALIDATION; GRID-SPACINGS; INTERPOLATION SCHEMES; INVERSE DISTANCE WEIGHTING; LAPSE RATE; LARGE LAKES; LEAVE ONE OUT; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; POSITIVE BIAS; SECOND-ORDER POLYNOMIAL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS; TEMPERATURE MODELS; TEST MODELS; TWO LAYER MODEL;

CLIMATOLOGY; INTERPOLATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ERROR STATISTICS;

EID: 77957768396     PISSN: 07011784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4296/cwrj3502131     Document Type: Article

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