Verifying a temporal disaggregation method for generating daily precipitation of potentially non-stationary climate change for site-specific impact assessment

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 326-342

  Zhang, X C ^a  

^a USDA ARS GRAZINGLANDS RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Temporal disaggregation; Weather generator

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; CLIMATE DATA; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; DATA POINTS; DISAGGREGATION; IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; NON-STATIONARITIES; NON-STATIONARY CONDITION; NONSTATIONARY; OKLAHOMA; SITE-SPECIFIC; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATION DATA; STATIONARITY; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; TRANSITION PROBABILITIES; VALIDATION PERIODS; WEATHER GENERATOR;

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; INTERPOLATION; STATISTICS;

ELECTRIC SUBSTATIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; INTERPOLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84872597354     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3425     Document Type: Article

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