Bias in the variance of gridded data sets leads to misleading conclusions about changes in climate variability

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 3413-3422

  Beguería, Santiago ^a   Vicente Serrano, Sergio M ^b   Tomás Burguera, Miquel ^a   Maneta, Marco ^c  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; climate variability; climatic grids; gridded data; spatial variance

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; INTERPOLATION;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATIC GRIDS; GRIDDED DATA; INTERPOLATION TECHNIQUES; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION; SPATIAL VARIANCE; STATION BASED DATUM; STATISTICAL SIMULATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA SET; INTERPOLATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 84950992369     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4561     Document Type: Article

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