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Statistical downscaling is based on the fact that the large-scale climatic state and regional/local physiographic features control the regional climate. In the present paper, a stochastic weather generator is applied to seasonal precipitation and temperature forecasts produced by the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI). In conjunction with the GLM (generalized linear modeling) weather generator, a resampling scheme is used to translate the uncertainty in the seasonal forecasts (the IRI format only specifies probabilities for three categories: below normal, near normal, and above normal) into the corresponding uncertainty for the daily weather statistics. The method is able to generate potentially useful shifts in the probability distributions of seasonally aggregated precipitation and minimum and maximum temperature, as well as more meaningful daily weather statistics for crop yields, such as the number of dry days and the amount of precipitation on wet days. The approach is extended to the case of climate change scenarios, treating a hypothetical return to a previously observed drier regime in the Pampas.
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Kim, Y., Rajagopalan, B. & Lee, G. Temporal statistical downscaling of precipitation and temperature forecasts using a stochastic weather generator. Adv. Atmos. Sci. 33, 175–183 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-015-5115-6
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