New developments and applications in the ANUCLIM spatial climatic and bioclimatic modelling package

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 40, Issue , 2013, Pages 267-279

  Xu, Tingbao ^a   Hutchinson, Michael F ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

BIOCLIM; Bioclimatic modelling; Climate change; Climate surface; Environmental modelling; Palaeoclimate

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MEAN; AUSTRALIA; BIOCLIM; CLIMATE PARAMETERS; CLIMATE VARIABLES; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EMISSION SCENARIO; ENVELOPE METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GRID FORM; PALAEOCLIMATE; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT GROWTH RESPONSE; POLICY MAKING; PREDICTION SYSTEMS; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; SPATIAL MODELLING; SPATIAL SCALE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; STUDY AREAS; SYSTEMATIC INVESTIGATIONS; WATER REGIME;

SURVEYING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GROWTH RESPONSE; NATURAL RESOURCE; PALEOCLIMATE; POLICY MAKING; RESEARCH WORK; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL PLANNING;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84871784693     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.10.003     Document Type: Article

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