What is monthly mean land surface air temperature?

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Volumn 93, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 156-

  Zeng, Xubin ^a   Wang, Aihui ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; LAND SURFACE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84859884988     PISSN: 00963941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012EO150006     Document Type: Article

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