A gridded global data set of daily temperature and precipitation for terrestrial biospheric modeling

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 757-782

  Piper, Stephen C ^a   Stewart, Elisabeth F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSPHERE; DATA SET; PRECIPITATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0030390735     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GB01894     Document Type: Article

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