High-resolution probabilistic projections of temperature changes over Ontario, Canada

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 5259-5284

  Wang, Xiuquan ^a   Huang, Guohe ^a,b   Lin, Qianguo ^b   Liu, Jinliang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods; Ensembles; Regional models

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC INDEXING; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SAMPLING;

BAYESIAN METHODS; BAYESIAN STATISTICAL MODEL; ENSEMBLES; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBABILISTIC PROJECTIONS; REGIONAL CLIMATE SIMULATION; REGIONAL MODEL;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; PROBABILITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 84904497818     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00717.1     Document Type: Article

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