Comparing and Blending Regional Climate Model Predictions for the American Southwest

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 586-605

  Salazar, Esther ^a   Sansó, Bruno ^b   Finley, Andrew O ^c   Hammerling, Dorit ^d   Steinsland, Ingelin ^e   Wang, Xia ^f   Delamater, Paul ^c  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Gaussian predictive process; Regional climate models; Space time processes

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORECASTING METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 83555178449     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: 15372693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13253-011-0074-6     Document Type: Article

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