Instrumental temperature series in eastern and central China back to the nineteenth century

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 8197-8207

  Cao, Lijuan ^a   Zhao, Ping ^b   Yan, Zhongwei ^c   Jones, Phil ^d,e   Zhu, Yani ^a   Yu, Yu ^a   Tang, Guoli ^a  

^a NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

^b STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^e KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

China; in recent 100 years; instrumental temperature series

Indexed keywords

QUALITY CONTROL; TIME SERIES;

CHINA; CROSS VALIDATION; MEAN TEMPERATURE SERIES; MISSING VALUES; SOUTHEASTERN CHINA; STATION NETWORK; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE SERIES;

INTERPOLATION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DATA SET; HOMOGENEITY; INSTRUMENTATION; NINETEENTH CENTURY; QUALITY CONTROL;

CHINA;

EID: 84884141232     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50615     Document Type: Article

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