Calculating regional climatic time series for temperature and precipitation: Methods and illustrations

Jones, P. D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5032-5493 and Hulme, M. (1996) Calculating regional climatic time series for temperature and precipitation: Methods and illustrations. International Journal of Climatology, 16 (4). pp. 361-377. ISSN 1097-0088

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Abstract

Various methods for combining station temperature and precipitation time series into regional series are examined. Interpolation of the station series on to regular grid-boxes of some kind reduces the effects of both spatial and temporal changes in station coverage. Regional time series are best produced by using anomaly or standardized anomaly values rather than the raw values. For temperature, and for spatially coherent regions in terms of precipitation variance, the exact method does not seriously affect the resulting time series, provided anomalies are used, although the magnitudes of trends may differ. For regions with large spatial variations in precipitation variance, the additional step of standardizing the anomaly values is recommended. Both anomaly and standardized anomaly series can be easily transformed back to the original units, although the exact method for doing so can alter the resulting time series in non-trivial ways.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Climatic Research Unit Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Depositing User:	Rosie Cullington
Date Deposited:	14 Mar 2011 10:25
Last Modified:	08 Aug 2023 09:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/26072
DOI:	10.1002/(SICI)1097-0088(199604)16:4<361::AID-JOC53>3.0.CO;2-F

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