Application of weather generator for environmental parameters estimation for upper indus basin

Soil and Environment

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 11-20

  Anwar, Shafiq ^a   Yu, Bofu ^b   Nabi, Ghulam ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Climate parameters; F test; LARS WG; Stochastic model; T test; Weather generator

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861391282     PISSN: 20749546     EISSN: 20751141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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