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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
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AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT
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Daeha Kim, Kyung-Ja Ha, Ji-Hye Yeo
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Guiyang Wu, Jie Chen, Xinyan Shi, Jong-Suk Kim, Jun Xia, Liping Zhang
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Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Xu Yue, Chenguang Tian, Yadong Lei
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY
(2021)
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J-L F. Li, Kuan-Man Xu, Wei-Liang Lee, J. H. Jiang, Eric Fetzer, Jia-Yuh Yu, Yi-Hui Wang, Graeme Stephens, Li-Chaio Wang
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ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2021)
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AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT
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RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING
(2022)
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Environmental Sciences
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY
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ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
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ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH
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