Uncertainty resulting from multiple data usage in statistical downscaling

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 4013-4019

  Kannan, S ^a   Ghosh, Subimal ^a   Mishra, Vimal ^b   Salvi, Kaustubh ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GANDHINAGAR   (India)

Author keywords

climate change; Indian monsoon; Statistical downscaling; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; WIND;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INDIAN MONSOON; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON RAINFALL; MODEL CALIBRATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE PROJECTIONS; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; STATISTICAL RELATIONSHIP; UNCERTAINTY;

RAIN;

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA ACQUISITION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MONSOON; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

INDIA;

EID: 84901891621     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060089     Document Type: Article

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