Air Temperature and Atmospheric Precipitation Fields in the Regions with a Sparse Measurement Network (with a Reference to the Lena River Basin)

A. V. Kislov, A. G. Georgiadi, L. I. Alekseeva, and O. P. Borodin

A technique for spatial detailing of temperature and precipitation aimed at correcting archive data is developed. It is based on topographic, reflective, and other characteristics of the surface. A detailed areal distribution of monthly mean temperature and precipitation is derived for the Lena River basin, a region which is extremely irregularly and poorly covered by meteorological observational data.