A pragmatic approach for downscaling precipitation in alpine-scale complex terrain

A statistical method is presented to downscale precipitation from a mesoscale atmospheric model simulation. The algorithm consists of two steps. First, local subscale variability is estimated based on a high resolution observed climatology. Second, there is a bias correction, which constrains the do...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Barbara Früh, Janus Willem Schipper, Andreas Pfeiffer, Volkmar Wirth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Borntraeger 2006-12-01
Series:Meteorologische Zeitschrift
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/0941-2948/2006/0137