Developing daily climate scenarios for agricultural impact studies

85th AMS Annual Meeting, American Meteorological Society - Combined Preprints

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 2461-2473

  Qian, Budong ^a   Hayhoe, Henry ^a   Gameda, Sam ^a  

^a OTTAWA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

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