Assessment of a stochastic downscaling methodology in generating an ensemble of hourly future climate time series

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 40, Issue 7-8, 2013, Pages 1841-1861

  Fatichi, S ^a,b   Ivanov, V Y ^c   Caporali, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Firenze; Italy; Stochastic downscaling; Uncertainty assessment; Weather generator

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FUTURE PROSPECT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; STOCHASTICITY; TIME SERIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FIRENZE [TUSCANY]; ITALY; TUSCANY;

EID: 84875740439     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1627-2     Document Type: Article

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