Creating daily weather series with use of the weather generator

Environmetrics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 409-424

  Dubrovsky, Martin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Autoregressive model; Climate change; Downscaling; Markov chain; Stochastic model; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DOWNSCALING; GCM; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; WEATHER DATA; WEATHER GENERATOR;

EID: 0030882493     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-095X(199709/10)8:5<409::AID-ENV261>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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