Modelling the true monthly mean temperature from continuous measurements over global land

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 2103-2110

  Li, Zhijun ^a,b   Wang, Kaicun ^a,b   Zhou, Chunlüe ^a,b   Wang, Laigang ^c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JOINT CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIES   (China)

^c Beijing BOOM Cartographic Product Co   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Diurnal temperature range; Global warming; Land surface air temperature

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; GLOBAL WARMING; LINEAR REGRESSION; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENTS; CONTINUOUS TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; DIURNAL TEMPERATURE RANGES; HISTORICAL OBSERVATION; LAND SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; LAND SURFACE;

EID: 84940184982     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4445     Document Type: Article

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