A cautionary note on automated statistical downscaling methods for climate change

Climatic Change

Volumn 120, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 263-276

  Estrada, Francisco ^a,b   Guerrero, Víctor M ^c   Gay García, Carlos ^a   Martínez López, Benjamín ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO AUTÓNOMO DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; COMPUTATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PARAMETER INSTABILITY; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

STATISTICS;

AUTOMATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MODEL VALIDATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84881611427     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0791-7     Document Type: Article

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