New climatic classification of Nepal

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 125, Issue 3-4, 2016, Pages 799-808

  Karki, Ramchandra ^a   Talchabhadel, Rocky ^a   Aalto, Juha ^b   Baidya, Saraju Kumar ^a  

^a Technology and Environment   (Nepal)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

NEPAL;

EID: 84981170168     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-015-1549-0     Document Type: Article

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