Developing site-specific future temperature scenarios for Northern Ireland: Addressing key issues employing a statistical downscaling approach

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 32, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 2007-2019

  Mullan, Donal ^a   Fealy, Rowan ^b   Favis Mortlock, Dave ^c  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calibration period; Climate change; Grid box; Northern Ireland; Predictor selection; Spatial offsets; Statistical downscaling; Temperature

Indexed keywords

GRID-BOX; NORTHERN IRELAND; PREDICTOR SELECTION; SPATIAL OFFSETS; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING;

CALIBRATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; STATISTICS; TEMPERATURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; FUTURE PROSPECT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MODEL VALIDATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WARMING;

NORTHERN IRELAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84867936014     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2414     Document Type: Article

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