Joint variable spatial downscaling

Climatic Change

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 945-972

  Zhang, Feng ^a   Georgakakos, Aris P ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; ATMOSPHERIC FIELDS; BIAS CORRECTION; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE PROJECTION; CLIMATIC FEATURES; CLIMATIC VARIABLES; COUPLED MODELS; CUMULATIVE FREQUENCIES; DATA SETS; DOWN-SCALING; DOWNSCALING METHODS; DYNAMIC DOWNSCALING; FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP; HIGH RESOLUTION; HISTORICAL OBSERVATION; HISTORICAL PERIODS; RIVER BASINS; SPATIAL DISAGGREGATION; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; SUB-GRIDS; WATERSHED MODELING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; STATISTICS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA SET; DOWNSCALING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RESOLUTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84857912263     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0167-9     Document Type: Article

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