Robust climate scenarios for sites with sparse observations: A two-step bias correction approach

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1226-1243

  Rajczak, Jan ^a   Kotlarski, Sven ^a   Salzmann, Nadine ^b   Schär, Christoph ^a  

^a ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bias correction; Climate change; Climate impact assessment; Projections; Regional climate models; Statistical downscaling

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION; ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES; ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE; MAPPING; WIND;

BIAS CORRECTION; CLIMATE IMPACT ASSESSMENT; PROJECTIONS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84937611712     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4417     Document Type: Article

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