Daily precipitation-downscaling techniques in three Chinese regions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Wetterhall, Fredrik ^a,b   Bádossy, András ^c   Chen, Deliang ^d,e   Halldin, Sven ^a   Xu, Chong Yu ^a,f  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^e China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CATCHMENTS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WIND;

SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CATCHMENTS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WIND;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CATCHMENT; DOWNSCALING; HUMIDITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL APPLICATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 33846400484     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004573     Document Type: Article

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