Equiratio cumulative distribution function matching as an improvement to the equidistant approach in bias correction of precipitation

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-6

  Wang, Lin ^a,b   Chen, Wen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Equidistant CDF matching; Equiratio CDF matching; Negative precipitation; Quantile mapping

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COUPLING; MAPPING METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

EID: 84892729403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1530261X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asl2.454     Document Type: Article

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