Application of SDSM and LARS-WG for simulating and downscaling of rainfall and temperature

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 116, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 243-257

  Hassan, Zulkarnain ^a   Shamsudin, Supiah ^b   Harun, Sobri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UTM RAZAK SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOWNSCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY;

MALAYSIA;

EID: 84896398809     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-013-0951-8     Document Type: Article

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