High-resolution temperature climatology for Italy: Interpolation method intercomparison

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1278-1296

  Brunetti, M ^a   Maugeri, M ^a,b   Nanni, T ^a   Simolo, C ^a   Spinoni, J ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

High resolution climatology; Interpolation methods; Italy; Mean temperature

Indexed keywords

HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERPOLATION METHOD; ITALY; MEAN TEMPERATURE; MULTI-LINEAR REGRESSION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; TEMPERATURE CLIMATOLOGIES; TEMPERATURE NORMALS;

ERRORS; INTERPOLATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; KRIGING; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OROGRAPHY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

ITALY;

EID: 84900633740     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3764     Document Type: Article

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