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The term downscaling denotes a procedure in which local climatic information is derived from large-scale climate parameters. In this paper, we conceive a downscaling procedure based on kriging and we present an example of the method by trying to reconstruct monthly winter precipitation in the Iberian Peninsula from the North Atlantic Sea Level Pressure (SLP) field in wintertime (December, January and February).
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Biau, G. (1999). Downscaling of Precipitation Combining Kriging and Empirical Orthogonal Function Analysis. In: Gómez-Hernández, J., Soares, A., Froidevaux, R. (eds) geoENV II — Geostatistics for Environmental Applications. Quantitative Geology and Geostatistics, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9297-0_13
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