Areal downscaling of global climate models: An approach that avoids data remodeling

Climate Research

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 241-249

  Charlery, J ^a   Nurse, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Barbados; Climate model; Climate variables; Downscaling; GCM; High resolution

Indexed keywords

BARBADOS; CLIMATE MODEL; CLIMATE VARIABLES; DOWN-SCALING; GCM; HIGH RESOLUTION;

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AREAL INTERPOLATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DOWNSCALING; GLOBAL CLIMATE;

BARBADOS;

EID: 78649862847     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr00875     Document Type: Article

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