Reducing biases in regional climate downscaling by applying Bayesian model averaging on large-scale forcing

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 9-10, 2012, Pages 2523-2532

  Yang, Hongwei ^a   Wang, Bin ^b,c  

^a APEC Climate Center   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Bayesian model averaging; Lateral boundary forcing; Regional climate simulation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE FORCING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

FAR EAST;

EID: 84868133564     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1260-5     Document Type: Article

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