A new high resolution absolute temperature grid for the Greater Alpine Region back to 1780

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2129-2141

  Chimani, Barbara ^a   Matulla, Christoph ^a   Böhm, Reinhard ^a   Hofstätter, Michael ^a  

^a ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

Author keywords

0 C level; Absolute temperature; Analyses; EOF; Greater Alpine Region; High resolution; Long term climate information

Indexed keywords

ALPINE REGIONS; ANALYSES; CLIMATE INFORMATION; EOF; HIGH RESOLUTION;

CLIMATOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LONG-TERM CHANGE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES;

EID: 84879605960     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3574     Document Type: Article

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