Assessment and improvement of CLIGEN non-precipitation parameters for the loess plateau of China

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 901-913

  Chen, Jie ^a,b   Zhang, Xun Chang John ^c   Liu, Wen Zhao ^a   Li, Zhi ^a  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

^c USDA ARS GRAZINGLANDS RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Solar radiation; Temperature; Weather generator; Wind velocity

Indexed keywords

CROP MODELING; DEW-POINT TEMPERATURE; LOESS PLATEAU; SOLAR RADIATION; STOCHASTIC WEATHER GENERATORS; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER GENERATOR; WIND VELOCITY;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEW POINT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOLAR RADIATION; WEATHER STATION; WIND VELOCITY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 49549086885     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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