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References

This page collects the main literature and methodological references used in the ClimateTools documentation.

Bias Correction

  • Themeßl, M. J., Gobiet, A., and Leuprecht, A. Empirical-statistical downscaling and error correction of regional climate models and its impact on the climate change signal. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2012.
  • Piani, C., Haerter, J. O., and Coppola, E. Statistical bias correction for daily precipitation in regional climate models over Europe. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2010.

These references motivate the quantile-mapping workflows exposed through qqmap and related functions.

Time Variability Correction

  • Shao, Y., Bishop, C. H., Hobeichi, S., Nishant, N., Abramowitz, G., and Sherwood, S. Time Variability Correction of CMIP6 Climate Change Projections. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2024. DOI: 10.1029/2023MS003640.

This is the methodological reference for tvc, fit_tvc, and apply_tvc.

Climate Indicators

The grouped index interface in ClimateTools overlaps conceptually with ETCCDI and xclim-style climate-indicator workflows, especially for threshold counts, spell-duration indices, and percentile-based indices.

Regridding and Scenario Construction

The ClimateTools documentation uses workflow-oriented documentation patterns inspired by the broader climate-services ecosystem, including xclim’s separation of tutorials, workflow guides, and API reference.