Connecting point-level and gridded moments in the analysis of climate data

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3496-3510

  Director, Hannah ^a   Bornn, Luke ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Climate records; Data processing; Statistical techniques; Statistics; Surface observations

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; DATA VISUALIZATION; STATISTICS;

BIAS; CLIMATE RECORD; CONNECTING POINTS; CORRECTION FACTORS; FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES; MATHEMATICAL RELATIONSHIP; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; SURFACE OBSERVATION;

DATA HANDLING;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA PROCESSING; SPATIAL DATA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84944104412     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00571.1     Document Type: Article

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