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# 1:3.4 Solar Radiation & Temperature

The procedure used to generate daily values for maximum temperature, minimum temperature and solar radiation (Richardson, 1981; Richardson and Wright, 1984) is based on the weakly stationary generating process presented by Matalas (1967).