Long-term trend of temperature derived by statistical downscaling based on EOF analysis

Acta Meteorologica Sinica

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 327-339

  Fan, Lijun ^a,b,c   Fu, Congbin ^a,b   Chen, Deliang ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Common EOF analysis; Long term trend of temperature; Northern China; Projected EOF analysis; Statistical downscaling

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DOWNSCALING; GEOSTATISTICS; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

CHINA;

EID: 79960156463     PISSN: 08940525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13351-011-0308-0     Document Type: Article

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