Downscaling of surface moisture flux and precipitation in the Ebro Valley (Spain) using analogues and analogues followed by random forests and multiple linear regression

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1895-1907

  Ibarra Berastegi, G ^a   Saenz J ^a   Ezcurra, A ^a   Elias A ^a   Diaz Argandona J ^a   Errasti, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FIELDS; DOWN-SCALING; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; RANDOM FORESTS; REANALYSIS; SURFACE MOISTURES;

BUILDINGS; DECISION TREES; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LANDFORMS; MOISTURE; OBSERVATORIES; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS;

LINEAR REGRESSION;

DATA SET; DOWNSCALING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LINEARITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOISTURE FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EBRO VALLEY; SPAIN;

EID: 79960366567     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-15-1895-2011     Document Type: Article

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