Evaluation of two statistical downscaling models for daily precipitation over an arid basin in China

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 31, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 2006-2020

  Liu, Zhaofei ^a,b   Xu, Zongxue ^a,c   Charles, Stephen P ^d   Fu, Guobin ^b,d   Liu, Liu ^a  

^a Beijing Normal University   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^c XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Extreme values; Hidden Markov model; Model comparison; NHMM; Probability density function (PDF); SDSM

Indexed keywords

EXTREME VALUE; MODEL COMPARISON; NHMM; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); SDSM;

CALIBRATION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ARID ENVIRONMENT; CORRELATION; DOWNSCALING; MARKOV CHAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CHINA;

EID: 80054899753     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2211     Document Type: Article

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