Representing twentieth century space-time climate variability, part 1: development of a 1961-90 mean monthly terrestrial climatology
The construction of a 0.58 lat 3 0.58 long surface climatology of global land areas, excluding Antarctica, is described. The climatology represents the period 1961–90 and comprises a suite of nine variables: precipitation, wet-day frequency, mean temperature, diurnal temperature range, vapor pressur...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.453.2124 2023-05-15T13:52:27+02:00 Representing twentieth century space-time climate variability, part 1: development of a 1961-90 mean monthly terrestrial climatology Mark New Mike Hulme Phil Jones The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 1999 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.453.2124 http://www.csrc.sr.unh.edu/~lammers/MacroscaleHydrology/Papers/NewEtAl1999-RepresentingTwentiethCenturySpaceTimeClimateVariabilityPartIMonthlyTerrestrialClimatology-JournalOfClimate.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.453.2124 http://www.csrc.sr.unh.edu/~lammers/MacroscaleHydrology/Papers/NewEtAl1999-RepresentingTwentiethCenturySpaceTimeClimateVariabilityPartIMonthlyTerrestrialClimatology-JournalOfClimate.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.csrc.sr.unh.edu/~lammers/MacroscaleHydrology/Papers/NewEtAl1999-RepresentingTwentiethCenturySpaceTimeClimateVariabilityPartIMonthlyTerrestrialClimatology-JournalOfClimate.pdf text 1999 ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T06:00:44Z The construction of a 0.58 lat 3 0.58 long surface climatology of global land areas, excluding Antarctica, is described. The climatology represents the period 1961–90 and comprises a suite of nine variables: precipitation, wet-day frequency, mean temperature, diurnal temperature range, vapor pressure, sunshine, cloud cover, ground frost frequency, and wind speed. The climate surfaces have been constructed from a new dataset of station 1961–90 climatological normals, numbering between 19 800 (precipitation) and 3615 (wind speed). The station data were interpolated as a function of latitude, longitude, and elevation using thin-plate splines. The accuracy of the interpolations are assessed using cross validation and by comparison with other climatologies. This new climatology represents an advance over earlier published global terrestrial climatologies in that it is strictly constrained to the period 1961–90, describes an extended suite of surface climate variables, explicitly incorporates elevation as a predictor variable, and contains an evaluation of regional errors associated with this and other commonly used climatologies. The climatology is already being used by researchers in the areas of ecosystem modelling, climate model evaluation, and climate change impact assessment. The data are available from the Climatic Research Unit and images of all the monthly fields can be accessed via the World Wide Web. 1. Text Antarc* Antarctica Unknown |
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The construction of a 0.58 lat 3 0.58 long surface climatology of global land areas, excluding Antarctica, is described. The climatology represents the period 1961–90 and comprises a suite of nine variables: precipitation, wet-day frequency, mean temperature, diurnal temperature range, vapor pressure, sunshine, cloud cover, ground frost frequency, and wind speed. The climate surfaces have been constructed from a new dataset of station 1961–90 climatological normals, numbering between 19 800 (precipitation) and 3615 (wind speed). The station data were interpolated as a function of latitude, longitude, and elevation using thin-plate splines. The accuracy of the interpolations are assessed using cross validation and by comparison with other climatologies. This new climatology represents an advance over earlier published global terrestrial climatologies in that it is strictly constrained to the period 1961–90, describes an extended suite of surface climate variables, explicitly incorporates elevation as a predictor variable, and contains an evaluation of regional errors associated with this and other commonly used climatologies. The climatology is already being used by researchers in the areas of ecosystem modelling, climate model evaluation, and climate change impact assessment. The data are available from the Climatic Research Unit and images of all the monthly fields can be accessed via the World Wide Web. 1. |
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