Evaluation of weather generator climgen for southern ontario

Canadian Water Resources Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 315-330

  McKague, Kevin ^a   Rudra, Ramesh ^b   Ogilvie, John ^b   Ahmed, Imran ^b   Gharabaghi, Bahram ^b  

^a FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROUGHT; SOILS; SOLAR RADIATION; WATER QUALITY;

DROUGHT CONDITIONS; SOIL WATER SYSTEMS; WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

EID: 33344462815     PISSN: 07011784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4296/cwrj3004315     Document Type: Article

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