Statistical downscaling using K-nearest neighbors

Water Resources Research

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1-23

  Gangopadhyay, Subhrendu ^a,c   Clark, Martyn ^a   Rajagopalan, Balaji ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

^c Hydrosphere Resource Consultants Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FUNCTIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VECTORS;

BISQUARE WEIGHT FUNCTIONS; FEATURE VECTORS; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; WEATHER PREDICTION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FORECASTING METHOD; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS;

EID: 15444377037     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003444     Document Type: Article

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