Statistical downscaling of regional daily precipitation over southeast Australia based on self-organizing maps

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 11-26

  Yin, Chonghua ^a   Li, Yinpeng ^a,b   Ye, Wei ^a   Bornman, Janet F ^a   Yan, Xiaodong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DOWNSCALING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 79960633975     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-010-0371-y     Document Type: Article

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