CHAC: A weather pattern classification system for regional climate downscaling of daily precipitation

Climatic Change

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 405-427

  D'onofrio, A ^a   Boulanger, J P ^a,b   Segura, E C ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES; CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; DIFFERENT DOMAINS; DOMAIN SIZE; DOWN-SCALING; DYNAMICAL VARIABLES; K-MEANS; LOCAL SCALE; PRECIPITATION DATA; PREDICTIVE SYSTEMS; REANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RELATIVE OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; ROC CURVES; SENSITIVITY TESTS; SKILL SCORE; SPATIAL DOMAINS; WEATHER PATTERNS; WEATHER STATIONS;

MOISTURE; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CALIBRATION; DIURNAL VARIATION; DOWNSCALING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER STATION;

ARGENTINA;

EID: 77149165736     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9738-4     Document Type: Article

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