Stochastic simulation of daily air temperature and precipitation from monthly normals in North America north of Mexico

International Journal of Biometeorology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 415-430

  Régnière, Jacques ^a   St Amant, Rémi ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autoregressive model; Climate change; Daily weather generator; Low frequency variability; Stochastic model

Indexed keywords

AIR; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; NORTH AMERICA; PRECIPITATION; SEASON; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WEATHER;

AIR; ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORTH AMERICA; PRECIPITATION; SEASONS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER;

EID: 34247599955     PISSN: 00207128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00484-006-0078-z     Document Type: Article

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