Evaluation and projection of daily temperature percentiles from statistical and dynamical downscaling methods

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2089-2099

  Casanueva, A ^a   Herrera, S ^a,b   Fernandez J ^a   Frias M D ^a   Gutierrez J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b Predictia Intelligent Data Solutions SL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; DATA SET; DOWNSCALING; EXTREME EVENT; PROBABILITY;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 84883000477     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-13-2089-2013     Document Type: Article

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