Reassessing statistical downscaling techniques for their robust application under climate change conditions

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 171-188

  Gutiérrez, José M ^a   San Martin D ^a   Brands, S ^a   Manzanas, R ^a   Herrera, S ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA DE CANTABRIA CSIC UC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY MEASURES; CHANGE CONDITIONS; DISTRIBUTIONAL SIMILARITIES; DOWN-SCALING; DOWNSCALING METHODS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HISTORICAL PERIODS; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; NEAR SURFACE TEMPERATURE; PREDICTOR SETS; REGRESSION METHOD; ROBUST APPLICATION; SD METHOD; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS; WARMING CLIMATE; WEATHER GENERATOR;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CORRELATION; DOWNSCALING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 84872933880     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00687.1     Document Type: Article

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