Downscaling daily precipitation time series using a combined circulation- and regression-based approach

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 439-454

  Yang, Wei ^a,c   Bárdossy, András ^a   Caspary, Hans Joachim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b STUTTGART UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c Swedish Metrological and Hydrological Institute   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DIURNAL VARIATION; DOWNSCALING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; TIME SERIES;

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EID: 78249276177     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-010-0272-0     Document Type: Article

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