Statistical downscaling of climate impact indices: testing the direct approach

Climatic Change

Volumn 127, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 547-560

  Casanueva, A ^a   Frias M D ^a   Herrera, S ^a,b   San Martin D ^b   Zaninovic, K ^c   Gutierrez J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b Predictia Intelligent Data Solutions SL   (Spain)

^c METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; MULTIVARIABLE SYSTEMS; WIND;

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; DIRECT APPROACH; DOWNSCALING METHODS; FIRE WEATHER INDEX; GLOBAL PROJECTION; PHYSIOLOGICAL EQUIVALENT TEMPERATURES; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; TRANSFER INFORMATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DOWNSCALING; HUMIDITY; INSTRUMENTATION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; STAKEHOLDER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRADE-OFF; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84911967787     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1270-5     Document Type: Article

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