Downscaling of surface temperature for lake catchment in an arid region in India using linear multiple regression and neural networks

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 552-566

  Goyal, Manish Kumar ^a,b   Ojha, C S P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Climate change; Downscaling; IPCC SRES scenarios; Maximum and minimum temperature; Regression

Indexed keywords

COUPLED GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; CROSS-CORRELATIONS; DATA SETS; DOWN-SCALING; EMISSION SCENARIO; FUTURE CLIMATE; LINEAR MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; PREDICTOR VARIABLES; RAJASTHAN; REANALYSIS; REGRESSION; SRES SCENARIO; STATISTICAL PERFORMANCE; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; THIRD GENERATION;

ARID REGIONS; BENCHMARKING; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; NEURAL NETWORKS;

LAKES;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CORRELATION; DATA SET; DOWNSCALING; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

INDIA; PICHOLA LAKE; RAJASTHAN;

EID: 84858256180     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2286     Document Type: Article

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