Evaluation of WGEN for generating long term weather data for crop simulations

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-12

  Soltani, A ^a   Latifi, N ^a   Nasiri, M ^b  

^a GORGAN UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Iran)

^b FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

Author keywords

Crop simulation; Generating weather data; WGEN

Indexed keywords

CROP; FORECASTING METHOD; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0034724960     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(00)00100-3     Document Type: Article

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