Rapidly Expanding Uses of Climate Data and Information in Agriculture and Water Resources: Causes and Characteristics of New Applications

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 821-830

  Changnon, Stanley A ^a   Kunkel, Kenneth E ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE WATER SURVEY   (United States)

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EID: 0000544620     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1999)080<0821:REUOCD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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