Developing a climate model for Iran using GIS

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 92, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 103-112

  Alijani, B ^a   Ghohroudi, M ^a   Arabi, N ^a  

^a KHARAZMI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARC-INFO; CLIMATE MODELING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; GIS; PIXEL; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST; YAZD;

EID: 41049092313     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-006-0292-y     Document Type: Article

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