Simulating maximum and minimum temperature over Greece: A comparison of three downscaling techniques

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 90, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 65-82

  Kostopoulou, E ^a   Giannakopoulos, C ^a   Anagnostopoulou, C ^b   Tolika, K ^b   Maheras, P ^b   Vafiadis, M ^b   Founda, D ^a  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CLIMATIC REGION; CORRELATION; DOWNSCALING; OROGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34547627162     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-006-0269-x     Document Type: Article

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