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18 Feb 2022
Research article |  | 18 Feb 2022

Reconstructing climate trends adds skills to seasonal reference crop evapotranspiration forecasting

Qichun Yang, Quan J. Wang, Andrew W. Western, Wenyan Wu, Yawen Shao, and Kirsti Hakala

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