Prediction of temperature and precipitation in Sudan and South Sudan by using LARS-WG in future

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 113, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 363-375

  Chen, Hua ^a,b   Guo, Jiali ^a   Zhang, Zengxin ^b,c   Xu, Chong Yu ^b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DOWNSCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

SOUTH SUDAN; SUDAN;

EID: 84880789169     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-012-0793-9     Document Type: Article

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