Operational maps of monthly mean temperature for WMO region VI (Europe and Middle East)

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Volumn 115, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 31-49

  Hogewind, Florian ^a   Bissolli, Peter ^b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate maps; Europe; Multi dimensional linear regression; RA VI; Spatial interpolation

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; AREAL INTERPOLATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LINEARITY; MAPPING; PARAMETERIZATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

EUROPE; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 79958788906     PISSN: 03246329     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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