Downscaling climate change information: An essential ingredient to incorporate uncertainties into adaptation policies

MODSIM 2011 - 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation - Sustaining Our Future: Understanding and Living with Uncertainty

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 115-126

  Timbal, B ^a   Wang, Y ^a   Evans, A ^b  

^a Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^b Australian Bureau of Meteorology   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian continent; Gridded projections; Statistical Downscaling Model (SDM)

Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES; AUSTRALIAN CONTINENT; CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS; CLIMATE PROJECTION; CLIMATE SCENARIOS; CLIMATE SIMULATION; CLIMATE SYSTEM; DAILY TEMPERATURES; DAY-TO-DAY VARIABILITY; DOWNSCALING CLIMATE CHANGE; FUTURE CLIMATE; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GRIDDED PROJECTIONS; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH RESOLUTION; HISTORICAL DATABASE; HORIZONTAL GRID; IN-SITU DATA; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; LOCAL CLIMATE; LONG-TERM TREND; LOW COSTS; MEAN SEA LEVEL PRESSURES; OPTIMAL MATCHING; REGIONALISATION; SPARSE NETWORK; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; STATISTICAL MODELS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SURFACE VARIABLES; SYNOPTIC WEATHER PATTERNS; TIME-SCALES; TROPICAL MONSOON; UNIVARIATE; UPPER AIR; WATER AVAILABILITY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; METEOROLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; RAIN; SEA LEVEL; SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; STATISTICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84863358405     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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