Search Results - subject:"Downscaling"

Modeling Uncertainty Resulting from Multiple Downscaling Methods in Assessing Hydrological Impacts of Climate Change

Ghosh, Subimal; Katkar, Sudhir - In: Water Resources Management 26 (2012) 12, pp. 3559-3579

Climate Change Impacts Assessment using Statistical Downscaling is observed to be characterized by uncertainties … resulting from multiple downscaling methods, which may perform similar during training, but differs in projections when applied … to GCM outputs of future scenarios. The common wisdom in statistical downscaling, for selection of downscaling algorithms …

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Present and future offshore wind power potential in northern Europe based on downscaled global climate runs with adjusted SST and sea ice cover

Barstad, Idar; Sorteberg, Asgeir; Mesquita, Michel … - In: Renewable Energy 44 (2012) C, pp. 398-405

. The downscaling method utilizes a global, stretched atmospheric numerical model with sea-surface temperature (SST) as the …

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Reservoir Management Using Coupled Atmospheric and Hydrological Models: The Brazilian Semi-Arid Case

Alves, José; Campos, José; Servain, Jacques - In: Water Resources Management 26 (2012) 5, pp. 1365-1385

This study investigated the sensitivity of a dynamic downscaling atmospheric model system coupled with a rainfall …

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Unveiling Vertical State Downscaling: Identity and/or the Economy?

Costa-i-Font, Joan - European Institute, London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

strengthens support for vertical state downscaling. Similarly, ending regional fiscal solidarity it is found that Catalonia would …

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Hybridizing the fifth generation mesoscale model with artificial neural networks for short-term wind speed prediction

Salcedo-Sanz, Sancho; Pérez-Bellido, Ángel M.; … - In: Renewable Energy 34 (2009) 6, pp. 1451-1457

This paper presents the hybridization of the fifth generation mesoscale model (MM5) with neural networks in order to tackle a problem of short-term wind speed prediction. The mean hourly wind speed forecast at wind turbines in a wind park is an important parameter used to predict the total power...

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Data-driven topo-climatic mapping with machine learning methods

Pozdnoukhov, A.; Foresti, L.; Kanevski, M. - In: Natural Hazards 50 (2009) 3, pp. 497-518

Automatic environmental monitoring networks enforced by wireless communication technologies provide large and ever increasing volumes of data nowadays. The use of this information in natural hazard research is an important issue. Particularly useful for risk assessment and decision making are...

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Varying-time random effects models for longitudinal data: unmixing and temporal interpolation of remote-sensing data

Cardot, Herve; Maisongrande, Philippe; Faivre, Robert - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 35 (2008) 8, pp. 827-846

downscaling issue through the generalization of varying-time regression models for longitudinal data and/or functional data by …

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Climate change implications for wind power resources in the Northwest United States

Sailor, David J.; Smith, Michael; Hart, Melissa - In: Renewable Energy 33 (2008) 11, pp. 2393-2406

disagreement in the direct model output from the four GCMs. When statistical downscaling was applied to the future climate …

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Regional climate change projections for the Northeast USA

Hayhoe, Katharine; Wake, Cameron; Anderson, Bruce; … - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 13 (2008) 5, pp. 425-436

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Lessons in Microfinance Downscaling: The Case of Banco de la Empresa, S.A.

Wenner, Mark D.; Campos, Sergio - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998

Few commercial banks have engaged in profitable microfinance lending despite repeated attempts by donor agencies to entice their entry. The case of Banco de la Empresa, a Latin American private bank, illustrates how penetration of the microenterprise market segment could evolve. This paper...

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