Simulating climate change scenarios using an improved K-nearest neighbor model

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 325, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 179-196

  Sharif, Mohammed ^a   Burn, Donald H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; frequency; K NN; Perturbation; Stochastic; Weather generator

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WATERSHEDS;

FREQUENCY; K-NN; PERTURBATIONS; STOCHASTIC; WEATHER GENERATORS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO; THAMES RIVER [ONTARIO];

EID: 33744900073     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2005.10.015     Document Type: Article

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