Regional Assessment of Monthly Soil Temperatures in the Aegean Region of Turkey

Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 765-775

  Bilgili, Mehmet ^a  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Air temperature; Artificial neural network; Regional assessment; Soil temperature; Solar energy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859183975     PISSN: 13198025     EISSN: 21914281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13369-012-0199-0     Document Type: Article

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