Uncertainty analysis of statistically downscaled temperature and precipitation regimes in Northern Canada

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 91, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 149-170

  Dibike, Yonas B ^a   Gachon, Philippe ^a,b   St Hilaire, André ^c   Ouarda, Taha B M J ^c   Nguyen, Van T V ^d  

^a OURANOS Consortium on Regional Climatology and Adaptation to Climate Change ^*  (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR TEMPERATURE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COUPLING; DOWNSCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RANKING; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 39449089220     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-007-0299-z     Document Type: Article

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