Evaluating the stationarity assumption in statistically downscaled climate projections: is past performance an indicator of future results?

Climatic Change

Volumn 135, Issue 3-4, 2016, Pages 395-408

  Dixon, Keith W ^a   Lanzante, John R ^a   Nath, Mary Jo ^a   Hayhoe, Katharine ^b   Stoner, Anne ^b   Radhakrishnan, Aparna ^c   Balaji, V ^d   Gaitán, Carlos F ^e  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Engility Corporation   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES; ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE; PRODUCT DESIGN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; CLIMATE PROJECTION; DECISION SUPPORT APPLICATIONS; FUTURE CLIMATE PROJECTIONS; FUTURE PROJECTIONS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING;

CLIMATE MODELS;

DOWNSCALING; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FUTURE PROSPECT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INFORMATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84961286074     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-016-1598-0     Document Type: Article

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