Effects of changes in algorithms used for the calculation of Australian mean temperature

Australian Meteorological Magazine

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-11

  Trewin, Blair ^a  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; TEMPERATURE; TREND ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 3242755856     PISSN: 00049743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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