Simulation of future climate scenarios with a weather generator

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 448-467

  Fatichi, Simone ^a,b   Ivanov, Valeriy Y ^b   Caporali, Enrica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Hydro meteorology; Rainfall model; Stochastic downscaling; Weather generator

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN APPROACHES; CLIMATE CONDITION; CLIMATE IMPACTS; CLIMATE STATISTICS; CLIMATE VARIABLES; DOWN-SCALING; EMISSION SCENARIO; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; FUTURE CLIMATE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDRO-METEOROLOGY; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LOW FREQUENCY; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; MULTIPLE DISCIPLINES; POINT LOCATION; PROBABILISTIC INFERENCE; RAINFALL MODELS; SPATIAL SCALE; STATISTICAL RELATIONSHIP; TEMPORAL SCALE; TIME RESOLUTION; WEATHER GENERATOR;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ECOLOGY; METEOROLOGY; RAIN; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FORECASTING METHOD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; RAINFALL; SIMULATION; STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79952184322     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2010.12.013     Document Type: Article

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