A Central European precipitation climatology - Part I: Generation and validation of a high-resolution gridded daily data set (HYRAS)

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 235-256

  Rauthe, Monika ^a   Steiner, Heiko ^a   Riediger, Ulf ^a   Mazurkiewicz, Alex ^a   Gratzki, Annegret ^a  

^a DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate; Daily interpolation; KLIWAS; Precipitation measurement

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; INVERSE DISTANCE WEIGHTING; KLIWAS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TOPOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION;

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPLEX NETWORKS; ERRORS; LINEAR REGRESSION;

INTERPOLATION;

INTERPOLATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RIVER BASIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

GERMANY;

EID: 84887850836     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2013/0436     Document Type: Article

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