Measured and predicted air temperatures at basin to regional scales in the southern Appalachian mountains

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 91, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 161-176

  Bolstad, Paul V ^a   Swift, Lloyd ^b   Collins, Fred ^c   Régnière, Jacques ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c IBM   (United States)

^d NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; MOUNTAIN REGION;

USA, APPALACHIANS;

EID: 0032103223     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(98)00076-8     Document Type: Article

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