Improved point scale climate projections using a block bootstrap simulation and quantile matching method

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 41, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 853-866

  Kokic, Philip ^a,b   Jin, Huidong ^a   Crimp, Steven ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coordinated block bootstrapping; Inter annual climate projections; Multiple linear regression; Prediction intervals; Statistical downscaling

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; BOOTSTRAPPING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DOWNSCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; RAINFALL;

FIJI; VANUATU;

EID: 84881027126     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1791-z     Document Type: Article

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