Spatiotemporal characterization of land surface temperature in Mount Kilimanjaro using satellite data

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 497-509

  Maeda, Eduardo Eiji ^a   Hurskainen, Pekka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

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EID: 84891669002     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-013-1082-y     Document Type: Article

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