Temporal downscaling: A comparison between artificial neural network and autocorrelation techniques over the Amazon Basin in present and future climate change scenarios

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 413-421

  Mendes, David ^a   Marengo, José A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TWENTIETH CENTURY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AMAZON BASIN;

EID: 77951768129     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-009-0193-y     Document Type: Article

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