Minimum data requirements for parameter estimation of stochastic weather generators

Climate Research

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 109-119

  Soltani, Afshin ^a   Hoogenboom, Gerrit ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Decision support systems; Simulation models; Weather data; Weather generation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA QUALITY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 0347135712     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr025109     Document Type: Article

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