Spatiotemporal modeling of monthly precipitation in the upper Shiyang River watershed in west central Gansu, northwest China

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 185-194

  Zhang, Cunjie ^a,b   Bourque, C P A ^b,c   Sun, Landong ^b   Hassan, Q K ^d  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b Lanzhou Regional Climate Center   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithms; Model building; MODIS products; Principal component analysis; Watershed delineation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949690164     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-009-8089-4     Document Type: Article

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