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Research Articles

Using the ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis datasets for river water temperature modelling in a data-scarce region

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Pages 93-110 | Received 06 Apr 2022, Accepted 12 Aug 2022, Published online: 30 Aug 2022

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