Automated regression-based statistical downscaling tool

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 813-834

  Hessami, Masoud ^a   Gachon, Philippe ^b,c   Ouarda, Taha B M J ^d   St Hilaire, André ^d  

^a SHAHID BAHONAR UNIVERSITY OF KERMAN   (Iran)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Eastern Canada; GCM; Multiple regression; Statistical downscaling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATED STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING (ASD); GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELS (GCM); MULTIPLE REGRESSION; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AUTOMATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DOWNSCALING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 38949147835     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2007.10.004     Document Type: Article

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