A case study of statistical downscaling in Australia using weather classification by recursive partitioning

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 212-213, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 362-379

  Schnur, Reiner ^a,b   Lettenmaier, Dennis P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Australia; Recursive partitioning; Statistical downscaling; Westher classification

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION TREE ANALYSIS; RECURSIVE PARTITIONING; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING METHODS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; RAINFALL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0032418383     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1694(98)00217-0     Document Type: Article

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