Climate change scenarios for Tibetan Plateau summer precipitation based on canonical correlation analysis

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 1310-1321

  Chen, Xiaoyang ^a   You, Qinglong ^a   Sielmann, Frank ^b   Ruan, Neng ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

canonical correlation analysis; precipitation; statistical downscaling; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION METHODS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SURFACE WATERS; WATER VAPOR;

CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CANONICAL CORRELATIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING MODELS (SDM); TIBETAN PLATEAU;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CMIP; CORRELATION; DOWNSCALING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SUMMER;

CHINA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL); QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84971372835     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4778     Document Type: Article

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