Modeling monthly mean air temperature for Brazil

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 113, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 407-427

  Alvares, Clayton Alcarde ^a   Stape, José Luiz ^b,d   Sentelhas, Paulo Cesar ^c   de Moraes Gonçalves, José Leonardo ^c  

^a Forestry Science and Research Institute   (Brazil)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d Forest Productivity Cooperative (FPC)   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; GIS; MODELING; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BRAZIL;

EID: 84880800034     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-012-0796-6     Document Type: Article

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