Estimating net radiation from air temperature for diffusion modelling applications in a tropical area Research Note

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 161-173

  Jegede, Oluwagbemiga O ^a,b  

^a DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^b OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Air temperature; Fourier transforms; Gaussian air pollution models; Net radiation

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; NET RADIATION;

EID: 0031399690     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1000462626302     Document Type: Article

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