A new weather generator based on spectral properties of surface air temperatures

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 135, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 241-251

  Schoof, J T ^a,c   Arguez, A ^a,b   Brolley, J ^a   O'Brien, J J ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

New weather generator; Spectral methods; Stochastic modeling; Surface air temperatures

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; WEATHER;

EID: 33144487074     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2005.12.004     Document Type: Article

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