Mixtures of stochastic processes: Application to statistical downscaling

Climate Research

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 185-193

  Katz, Richard W ^a   Parlange, Marc B ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric circulation index; Chain dependent process; Climate change scenarios; Daily precipitation; Overdispersion

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DOWNSCALING; PRECIPITATION; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING;

EID: 0030405735     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr007185     Document Type: Article

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