Differences between true mean daily, monthly and annual air temperatures and air temperatures calculated with three equations: A case study from three Croatian stations

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 114, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 271-279

  Bonacci, Ognjen ^a   Željković, Ivana ^a   Trogrlić, Robert Šakić ^a   Milković, Janja ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^b METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; CLIMATOLOGY; EQUATION; METEOROLOGY;

CROATIA;

EID: 84884592684     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-012-0830-8     Document Type: Article

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