Validation of China-wide interpolated daily climate variables from 1960 to 2011

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 119, Issue 3-4, 2015, Pages 689-700

  Yuan, Wenping ^a   Xu, Bing ^a   Chen, Zhuoqi ^a   Xia, Jiangzhou ^a   Xu, Wenfang ^a   Chen, Yang ^a   Wu, Xiaoxu ^a   Fu, Yang ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84897124131     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-014-1140-0     Document Type: Article

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