A time-scale decomposition approach to statistically downscale summer rainfall over North China

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 572-591

  Guo, Yan ^a,b   Li, Jianping ^a   Li, Yun ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate prediction

Indexed keywords

850-HPA; CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATIC VARIABLES; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DOWN-SCALING; EAST CHINA; EMISSION SCENARIO; GLOBAL SCALE; INDIAN OCEAN; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL RAINFALL; INTERDECADAL; MERIDIONAL WINDS; NORTH CHINA; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; STEPWISE REGRESSION; SUMMER RAINFALL; TIME-SCALE DECOMPOSITION; TOTAL RAINFALL; VALIDATION PERIODS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; SEA LEVEL;

RAIN;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; DOWNSCALING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL;

CHINA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTHWEST);

EID: 84863016674     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00014.1     Document Type: Article

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