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Nowadays, there is an increased demand for high quality climatic atlases since the majority of the environmental disciplines are related to climate. Also mapping of climate variables discloses information about climate change. In this study we aim to produce high resolution monthly temperature maps for the Greek area. Max temperature data series were obtained from 52 meteorological stations of the Hellenic National Meteorological Service. Temperature data series were homogenized with a new homogenization method namely HOMER. Then the spatial distribution of the homogenized monthly max temperature series was estimated for the normal period 1971–2000, using an interpolation method developed for meteorological purposes, namely MISH. For that purpose the SRTM 90 m digital elevation data, the first 15 AURELHY principal components and some auxiliary topographical variables were used as temperature predictors. The spatial interpolation of monthly max temperature has been performed with resolution half minutes (730 m approximately at 38°N).
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Anadranistakis, M., Mamara, A., Argiriou, A.A. (2017). Spatial Analysis of the Air Temperature in Greece for the Normal Period 1971–2000. In: Karacostas, T., Bais, A., Nastos, P. (eds) Perspectives on Atmospheric Sciences. Springer Atmospheric Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-35095-0_73
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