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The FORBIO Climate data set for climate analyses

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Title (Dublin Core)

The FORBIO Climate data set for climate analyses

Description (Dublin Core)

In the framework of the interdisciplinary FORBIO Climate research project,
the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium is in charge of providing high
resolution gridded past climate data (i.e. temperature and precipitation).
This climate data set will be linked to the measurements on seedlings,
saplings and mature trees to assess the effects of climate variation on tree
performance. This paper explains how the gridded daily temperature (minimum
and maximum) data set was generated from a consistent station network between
1980 and 2013. After station selection, data quality control procedures were
developed and applied to the station records to ensure that only valid
measurements will be involved in the gridding process. Thereafter, the set of
unevenly distributed validated temperature data was interpolated on a
4 km × 4 km regular grid over Belgium. The performance of
different interpolation methods has been assessed. The method of kriging with
external drift using correlation between temperature and altitude gave the
most relevant results.

Creator (Dublin Core)

C. Delvaux
M. Journée
C. Bertrand

Subject (Dublin Core)

Science
Q
Physics
QC1-999
Meteorology. Climatology
QC851-999

Publisher (Dublin Core)

Copernicus Publications

Date (Dublin Core)

2015-06-01T00:00:00Z

Type (Dublin Core)

article

Identifier (Dublin Core)

1992-0628
1992-0636
10.5194/asr-12-103-2015
https://doaj.org/article/410b8905a97e4036964796be30be4af7

Source (Dublin Core)

Advances in Science and Research, Vol 12, Pp 103-109 (2015)

Language (Dublin Core)

EN

Relation (Dublin Core)

http://www.adv-sci-res.net/12/103/2015/asr-12-103-2015.pdf
https://doaj.org/toc/1992-0628
https://doaj.org/toc/1992-0636

Provenance (Dublin Core)

Journal Licence: CC BY