abstract long-term historical weather data are needed to conduct crop simulation analysis. simulated climatic data may be used when long series of historic data are not available or convenient or when future data are needed. the aim of this study was to generate daily weather values for maximum and minimum air temperatures. a number of weather generators are compared here. data from ten station...

In this article, we illustrate a general approach for the semi-automatic construction and management of data warehouses. Our approach is particularly suited when the number or the size of involved sources is large and/ or when it changes quite frequently over time. Our approach is based mainly on the semi-automatic derivation of interschema properties (i.e., terminological and structural relati...