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Juliana de Souza Granja Barros1, Luiz Antonio Rossi2, Karina Sartor2

  • 1School of Agricultural Engineering, University of Campinas-UNICAMP, Avda. Cândido Rondon 501, Campinas, 13083875, Brazil. july.granja@hotmail.com.

International Journal of Biometeorology
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