Interrogating empirical-statistical downscaling

Climatic Change

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 539-554

  Hewitson, B C ^a   Daron, J ^a   Crane, R G ^a   Zermoglio, M F ^b   Jack, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRASHWORTHINESS; ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE;

ADAPTATION DECISIONS; APPROPRIATE METRICS; CLIMATE INFORMATION; CLIMATE PROJECTION; CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS; ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING;

ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES;

EID: 84906270352     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-1021-z     Document Type: Article

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