Assessment of robustness and significance of climate change signals for an ensemble of distribution-based scaled climate projections

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 486, Issue , 2013, Pages 479-493

  Seaby, L P ^a,b   Refsgaard, J C ^a   Sonnenborg, T O ^a   Stisen, S ^a   Christensen, J H ^c   Jensen, K H ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bias correction; Climate change; Delta change; Distribution based scaling; ENSEMBLES

Indexed keywords

BIAS CORRECTION; BIAS-CORRECTION METHODS; DELTA CHANGE; DISTRIBUTION-BASED SCALING; ENSEMBLES; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

CLIMATE MODELS; WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CORRECTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE;

DENMARK;

EID: 84875536070     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.02.015     Document Type: Article

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