Projecting North Eastern Italy temperature and precipitation secular records onto a high-resolution grid

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 40-41, Issue , 2012, Pages 9-22

  Brunetti, M ^a   Lentini, G ^b   Maugeri, M ^b   Nanni, T ^a   Simolo, C ^a   Spinoni, J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Climate reconstruction; Climatology; High resolution grid; Precipitation; Temperature

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; GRID CELLS; GRID POINTS; HIGH-RESOLUTION GRIDS; LINEAR REGRESSION METHODS; LOCAL LINEAR REGRESSION; PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY; SLOPE STEEPNESS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

LINEAR REGRESSION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ITALY;

EID: 84858865580     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2009.12.005     Document Type: Article

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