Comparing scenarios of canadian daily climate extremes derived using a weather generator

Climate Research

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 131-149

  Qian, Budong ^a   Gameda, Samuel ^a   De Jong, Reinder ^a   Falloon, Pete ^b   Gornall, Jemma ^b  

^a OTTAWA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Canada; Climate extremes; Climate scenarios; Downscaling; GCMs; Stochastic weather generator

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION STRATEGIES; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; CLIMATE CHANGE SIMULATIONS; CLIMATE SCENARIOS; COARSE GRID; DOWN-SCALING; FINE GRIDS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GROWING SEASON; LOCAL CLIMATE; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL SCALE; STOCHASTIC WEATHER GENERATOR; TIME PERIODS; WEATHER GENERATOR;

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GROWING SEASON; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL VARIATION; STOCHASTICITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CANADA;

EID: 77954101462     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr00845     Document Type: Article

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