Evaluation of a weather generator-based method for statistically downscaling non-stationary climate scenarios for impact assessment at a point scale

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1745-1756

  Zhang, X C ^a   Chen, J ^b   Garbrecht, J D ^a   Brissette, F P ^b  

^a USDA ARS GRAZINGLANDS RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Impact assessment; Statistical downscaling; Weather generator

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MAXIMA; CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; CLIMATE SCENARIOS; CLIMATIC ZONE; DOWN-SCALING; DOWNSCALING CLIMATE CHANGE; DOWNSCALING METHODS; DRY AND WET; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; GENERATED FREQUENCY; IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; MODEL EFFICIENCY; NON-STATIONARITIES; NON-STATIONARY CONDITION; NONSTATIONARY; OBSERVED DATA; SKEWNESS COEFFICIENTS; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; TRANSITION PROBABILITIES; TROPICAL CLIMATES; VALIDATION PERIODS; WEATHER GENERATOR;

ELECTRIC SUBSTATIONS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; RAIN; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; MODEL VALIDATION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROBABILITY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WEATHER MODIFICATION;

EID: 84872318250     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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