On the spatial representativeness of temporal dynamics at European weather stations

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3154-3160

  Orlowsky, Boris ^a   Seneviratne, Sonia I ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gridded versus station data; Inverse footprint; Spatial representativeness; Synchronous dynamics

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE; CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; DIRECTIONAL DEPENDENCE; INVERSE FOOTPRINT; NEAR SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL REPRESENTATIVENESS; STATION DATA; SYNCHRONOUS DYNAMICS;

WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WEATHER;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 84905024621     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3903     Document Type: Article

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