Downscaling precipitation to river basin in India for IPCC SRES scenarios using support vector machine

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 401-420

  Anandhi, Aavudai ^a   Srinivas, V V ^a   Nanjundiah, Ravi S ^a   Nagesh Kumar, D ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Climate change; Clustering; Downscaling; Hydroclimatology; IPCC SRES scenarios; Precipitation; Support vector machine (SVM)

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RIVERS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

HYDROCLIMATOLOGY; SPECIAL REPORT OF EMISSION SCENARIOS; THIESSEN WEIGHTED PRECIPITATION;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATE CHANGE; DOWNSCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RIVER BASIN;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 40949134707     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1529     Document Type: Article

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