Regional Climate Downscaling

Modelling the Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 34-85

  Wilby, Robert L ^a   Fowler, Hayley J ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'climatological projection by model statistics' (CPMS); 'downscaling' methods, local to regional scale climate information; Empirical orthogonal functions (EOFs) of spatial variations; Facets of downscaling explored using smaller set of models; Global climate models in the future at high resolution, and the need for downscaling; Land surface processes, within UK Met Office MOSES system; Model output statistics (MOS); Origins of downscaling in numerical weather prediction; Regional climate downscaling; Uncertainty of global climate change projections via multimodel ensembles of opportunity and via perturbed physics experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885990919     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444324921.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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