The agroclimatic analysis at farm scale

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 13, Issue S1, 2006, Pages 87-93

  Orlandini, Simone ^a   Marta, Anna Dalla ^a   Mancini, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

air temperature; spatial variability; temporal variability; topoclimate

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011528589     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482706002593     Document Type: Article

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