High-resolution temperature and precipitation projections over Ontario, Canada: A coupled dynamical-statistical approach

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 141, Issue 689, 2015, Pages 1137-1146

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dynamical downscaling; Impacts studies; Regional climate projection; Statistical downscaling

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC INDEXING; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING; IMPACTS STUDIES; REGIONAL CLIMATE PROJECTIONS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STATISTICAL APPROACH; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84932198515     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2421     Document Type: Article

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