A simple statistical-dynamical downscaling scheme based on weather types and conditional resampling

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 111, Issue 23, 2006, Pages

  Boe J ^a   Terray, L ^a   Habets, F ^b   Martin, E ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; DOWNSCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; SEINE BASIN; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34547924439     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JD006889     Document Type: Article

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