Bias Correcting Climate Change Simulations - a Critical Review

Current Climate Change Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 211-220

  Maraun, Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bias correction; Downscaling; Model output statistics; Regional climate modelling; Statistical post processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016163604     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21986061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40641-016-0050-x     Document Type: Review

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