Demonstration of a geostatistical approach to physically consistent downscaling of climate modeling simulations

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 245-259

  Jha, Sanjeev Kumar ^a   Mariethoz, Gregoire ^a   Evans, Jason P ^a   McCabe, Matthew F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOSTATISTICAL APPROACH; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; MULTIPLE-POINT GEOSTATISTICS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS; REMOTE SENSING IMAGES; SKIN SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; GROUNDWATER; IMAGE FUSION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SOIL MOISTURE;

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; GEOSTATISTICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LATENT HEAT FLUX; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

EID: 84876560975     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR012602     Document Type: Article

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