Downscaling Precipitation and Temperature with Temporal Neural Networks

Abstract The issues of downscaling the outputs of a global climate model (GCM) to a scale that is appropriate to hydrological impact studies are investigated using a temporal neural network approach. The time-lagged feed-forward neural network (TLFN) is proposed for downscaling daily total precipitation and daily maximum and minimum temperature series for the Serpent River watershed in northern Quebec (Canada). The downscaling …