Downscaling extreme short-term regional climate model precipitation for urban hydrological applications

Hydrology Research

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 341-351

  Olsson, Jonas ^a   Willén, Ulrika ^a   Kawamura, Akira ^b  

^a SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climate change; Intensity duration frequency curves; Stochastic downscaling

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY POINTS; DOWN-SCALING; GRID SCALE; GRID-BOX; HYDROLOGICAL CLIMATE CHANGE; IDF CURVES; IN-PROCESS; INTENSITY-DURATION-FREQUENCY CURVES; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SPATIAL GRIDS; STOCKHOLM; STOCKHOLM , SWEDEN;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; EXTREME EVENT; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; STOCHASTICITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

STOCKHOLM [SWEDEN]; SWEDEN;

EID: 84864306429     PISSN: 00291277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2012.135     Document Type: Article

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