Downscaling regional climate data to calculate the radiative index of dryness in complex terrain

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 109-122

  Nyman, Petter ^a,b   Sherwin, Christopher B ^a,c   Langhans, Christoph ^a   Lane, Patrick N J ^a,b   Sheridan, Gary J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b BUSHFIRE COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c Esri Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; COMPLEX TERRAIN; DOWNSCALING; NET RADIATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SATELLITE DATA; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

AUSTRALIA; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 84922250643     PISSN: 1836716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22499/2.6402.003     Document Type: Article

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