A general method for validating statistical downscaling methods under future climate change

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 18, 2007, Pages

  Vrac, Mathieu ^a,b   Stein, M L ^a   Hayhoe, K ^c,d   Liang, X Z ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ILLINOIS STATE WATER SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; STATISTICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC-OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS (GCMS); REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL (RCM); STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING METHOD;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; DOWNSCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 36549005078     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030295     Document Type: Article

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