Analysis of precipitation climates: Historical and future climate regimes

 

Focus:

This research is focused on quantifying changes in historical precipitation climates and developing robust projections for future conditions using both empirical downscaling and dynamical downscaling tools.

 

Study region: USA

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Data sources:

Daily precipitation for the historical period (1911–2000) are drawn from; the data set developed by Kunkel et al. [1998, 2005] and the National Weather Service Cooperative Observing Program (COOP) archive (http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/coop/)

 

Funding from the National Science Foundation

The people who have worked with us:

J.T. Schoof: Southern Illinois University

T. Lindley (Ph.D. candidate), Indiana University