Estimating daily air temperature across the Southeastern United States using high-resolution satellite data: A statistical modeling study

Environmental Research

Volumn 146, Issue , 2016, Pages 51-58

  Shi, Liuhua ^a   Liu, Pengfei ^b   Kloog, Itai ^c   Lee, Mihye ^a   Kosheleva, Anna ^a   Schwartz, Joel ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Air temperature; Exposure error; MODIS; Reanalysis; Surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR TEMPERATURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ERROR ANALYSIS; HUMIDITY; MODELING; MODIS; PREDICTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RESOLUTION; SATELLITE DATA; SMOOTHING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMIDITY; LAND USE; METEOROLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOPOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES; WETLAND; GEOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; REMOTE SENSING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASON; SPACE FLIGHT; TEMPERATURE; TENNESSEE;

UNITED STATES;

CALIBRATION; GEOGRAPHY; LINEAR MODELS; METEOROLOGY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; SPACECRAFT; TEMPERATURE; TENNESSEE;

EID: 84950257637     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2015.12.006     Document Type: Article

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