30-Arcsecond monthly climate surfaces with global land coverage

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2175-2188

  Mosier, Thomas M ^a   Hill, David F ^a   Sharp, Kendra V ^a  

^a 1148 Kelley Engineering Center Corvallis   (United States)

Author keywords

Downscaling; Global climate data; High resolution; Mean temperature; Monthly time series; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; INTERPOLATION; POLYNOMIALS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PRISMS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CUBIC-SPLINE INTERPOLATION; DOWN-SCALING; GLOBAL CLIMATES; GLOBAL HISTORICAL CLIMATOLOGY NETWORK; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERPOLATING POLYNOMIALS; MEAN TEMPERATURE; PRODUCT-MOMENT CORRELATION;

DATA PROCESSING;

DOWNSCALING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TIME SERIES;

OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84901828522     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3829     Document Type: Article

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