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SUBMITTER: Karger DN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8626457 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Karger Dirk Nikolaus DN Wilson Adam M AM Mahony Colin C Zimmermann Niklaus E NE Jetz Walter W
Scientific data 20211126 1
High-resolution climatic data are essential to many questions and applications in environmental research and ecology. Here we develop and implement a new semi-mechanistic downscaling approach for daily precipitation estimate that incorporates high resolution (30 arcsec, ≈1 km) satellite-derived cloud frequency. The downscaling algorithm incorporates orographic predictors such as wind fields, valley exposition, and boundary layer height, with a subsequent bias correction. We apply the method to t ...[more]