On the choice of the temporal aggregation level for statistical downscaling of precipitation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1816-1827

  Buishand, T A ^a   Shabalova, M V ^a   Brandsma, T ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

DOWNSCALING; NETHERLANDS; TEMPORAL AGGREGATION; WET-DAY PRECIPITATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

DOWNSCALING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

BENELUX; BERN [SWITZERLAND]; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; NETHERLANDS; SWITZERLAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 2442618873     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<1816:OTCOTT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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