HOMER: A homogenization software - methods and applications

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Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 47-67

  Mestre, Olivier ^a   Domonkos, Peter ^b   Picard, Franck ^c   Auer, Ingeborg ^d   Robin, Stéphane ^e   Lebarbier, Emilie ^e   Böhm, Reinhard ^d   Aguilar, Enric ^b   Guijarro, Jose ^f   Vertachnik, Gregor ^g   Klancar, Matija ^g   Dubuisson, Brigitte ^a   Stepanek, Petr ^h  

^a MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^c LABORATOIRE DE BIOMÉTRIE ET BIOLOGIE EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^d ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

^e AgroParisTech   (France)

^f Agencia Estatal de Meteorologia   (Spain)

^g Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia   (Slovenia)

^h CZECH HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

ANOVA; Homogenization; Joint segmentation; Optimal segmentation; Precipitation; Temperature; Urban trend bias

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEGMENTATION; SOFTWARE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TREND ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84875407979     PISSN: 03246329     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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