Customized spatial climate models for North America

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 92, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1611-1622

  McKenney, Daniiel W ^a   Hutchiinson, Michael F ^b   Papadopol, Pia ^a   Lawrence, Keviin ^a   Pedlar, John ^a   Campbell, Kathy ^a   Milewska, Ewa ^c   Hopkinson, Ron F ^d   Price, David ^a   Owen, Tim ^e  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d Custom Climate Services   (Canada)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC MODELS; CANADIAN FORESTS; DATA SETS; DATA SMOOTHING; ERROR ESTIMATES; GENERALIZED CROSS VALIDATION; PRECIPITATION MODEL; SPATIAL COHERENCE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIME STEP;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84855812892     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011BAMS3132.1     Document Type: Article

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