Evaluation of downscaled daily rainfall hindcasts over Sydney, Australia using statistical and dynamical downscaling approaches

Hydrology Research

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 226-249

  Mehrotra, R ^a   Evans, J P ^a   Sharma, A ^a   Sivakumar, B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dynamical downscaling; Rainfall; Regional climate; Statistical downscaling; Sydney

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CONDITIONAL SIMULATIONS; DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; REGIONAL CLIMATE; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; SYDNEY; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

RAIN;

CATCHMENT; DOWNSCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; SYDNEY [NEW SOUTH WALES];

EID: 84899477744     PISSN: 00291277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2013.094     Document Type: Article

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