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Mansi Bhowmick, Sandeep Sahany, Ananda Kumar Das
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A. Brandi, R. C. Balling, P. Iniguez, M. Georgescu
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Shu Fang, Kebiao Mao, Xueqi Xia, Ping Wang, Jiancheng Shi, Sayed M. Bateni, Tongren Xu, Mengmeng Cao, Essam Heggy, Zhihao Qin
Summary: This study constructed different T-a reconstruction models for different weather conditions in China and obtained a dataset of daily temperature (T-max, T-min, and T-avg) from 1979 to 2018 with high spatio-temporal resolution. The dataset has been validated and shown to have high accuracy and spatial resolution. It provides key parameters for studying climate change, especially high-temperature drought and low-temperature chilling damage.
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Wenmi Chai, Yu Huang, Lichao Yang, Heng Quan, Zuntao Fu
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THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY
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Bengt Dahlstrom
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Erguen Bey, Murat Turkes, Mohammed Magdy Hamed
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THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY
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Yan Chen, Shunlin Liang, Han Ma, Bing Li, Tao He, Qian Wang
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Peter E. Thornton, Rupesh Shrestha, Michele Thornton, Shih-Chieh Kao, Yaxing Wei, Bruce E. Wilson
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Neng Luo, Yan Guo, Jieming Chou, Zhibo Gao
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY
(2022)
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Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Ziyue Guo, Juan Fang, Min Shao, Jie Tang, Jianping Tang
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Sadame M. Yimer, Navneet Kumar, Abderrazak Bouanani, Bernhard Tischbein, Christian Borgemeister
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