Predicting monthly precipitation with multivariate regression methods using geographic and topographic information

Physical Geography

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 269-285

  Sun, Ranhao ^a   Chen, Liding ^a   Fu, Bojie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Daqing Mountains; GIS; multivariate regression; precipitation modeling; topographic effects

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ACQUISITION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GIS; MODEL VALIDATION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

CHINA; DAQING SHAN; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 79960733038     PISSN: 02723646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3646.32.3.269     Document Type: Article

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