Meteorologically consistent bias correction of climate time series for agricultural models

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 110, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 129-141

  Hoffmann, Holger ^a   Rath, Thomas ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CORRECTION; MAPPING; METEOROLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 84867102727     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-012-0618-x     Document Type: Article

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