A Dynamic method for gap filling in daily temperature datasets

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1079-1086

  Tardivo, Gianmarco ^a   Berti, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automatic weather stations; Climate prediction; Numerical analysis modeling; Regression analysis; Surface temperature; Time series

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC WEATHER STATIONS; AVERAGE ERRORS; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DAILY TEMPERATURES; DATA SETS; DYNAMIC METHOD; DYNAMIC SELECTION; GAP FILLING; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; MISSING DATA; RECONSTRUCTION ERROR; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE DATA; TIME-DEPENDENT FACTORS;

CLIMATOLOGY; ERRORS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA SET; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEATHER STATION;

ITALY; VENETO;

EID: 84864947637     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-0117.1     Document Type: Article

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