Generation of Daily and Hourly Weather Variables for use in Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment

Water Resources Management

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1533-1550

  Sharif, Mohammed ^a   Burn, Donald H ^b   Hofbauer, Karen M ^b,c  

^a JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c McCormick Rankin Corporation   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Disaggregation; GCM; Weather generator K NN

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; DROUGHT; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH;

DISAGGREGATION; EXTREME PRECIPITATION EVENTS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; K-NEAREST NEIGHBOURS; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; MINIMUM TEMPERATURES; VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS; WEATHER GENERATOR;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); VULNERABILITY;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; THAMES RIVER [ONTARIO];

EID: 84874262490     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-012-0253-4     Document Type: Article

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