Benestad R.E., Chen D., Hanssen-Bauer I. Empirical - Statistical Downscaling

World Scientific, 2007. — 272 p.Empirical-statistical downscaling (ESD) is a method for estimating how local climatic variables are affected by large-scale climatic conditions. ESD has been applied to local climate/weather studies for years, but there are few — if any — textbooks on the subject. It is also anticipated that ESD will become more important and commonplace in the future, as anthropogenic global warming proceeds. Thus, a textbook on ESD will be important for next-generation climate scientists.Downscaling Strategies
Predictors and Preprocessing
Linear Techniques
Nonlinear Techniques
Predictions and Diagnostics
Shortcomings and Limitations
Reducing Uncertainties
Downscaling Extremes and PDFs
Weather Generator
Implementing ESDReadership: Graduate students, academics and researchers in the field of climatology, geography and hydrology.