Mapping near-surface air temperature, pressure, relative humidity and wind speed over Mainland China with high spatiotemporal resolution

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1127-1135

  Li, Tao ^a   Zheng, Xiaogu ^a   Dai, Yongjiu ^a   Yang, Chi ^a   Chen, Zhuoqi ^a   Zhang, Shupeng ^a   Wu, Guocan ^a   Wang, Zhonglei ^a   Huang, Chengcheng ^a   Shen, Yan ^b   Liao, Rongwei ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

atmospheric forcing data; kriging; land surface model; reanalysis data; thin plate smoothing spline

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904349458     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-014-3190-8     Document Type: Article

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