Statistical downscaling of general circulation model output: A comparison of methods

…, TML Wigley, D Conway, PD Jones… - Water resources …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
… Conway, D., and PD Jones, The use of weather types and air flow indices for GCM … Conway,
and PD Jones, Statistical downscaling of general circulation model output, a report prepared …

High-resolution palaeoclimatic records for the last millennium: interpretation, integration and comparison with General Circulation Model control-run temperatures

PD Jones, KR Briffa, TP Barnett, SFB Tett - The Holocene, 1998 - journals.sagepub.com
Palaeoclimatology provides our only means of assessing climatic variations before the
beginning of instrumental records. The various proxy variables used, however, have a number of …

Influence of volcanic eruptions on Northern Hemisphere summer temperature over the past 600 years

KR Briffa, PD Jones, FH Schweingruber, TJ Osborn - Nature, 1998 - nature.com
A network of temperature-sensitive tree-ring-density chronologies provides circum-hemisphere
information on year-by-year changes in summer warmth in different regions of the …

Reduced sensitivity of recent tree-growth to temperature at high northern latitudes

KR Briffa, FH Schweingruber, PD Jones, TJ Osborn… - Nature, 1998 - nature.com
Tree-ring chronologies that represent annual changes in the density of wood formed during
the late summer can provide a proxy for local summertime air temperature 1 . Here we …

Trees tell of past climates: but are they speaking less clearly today?

…, FH Schweingruber, PD Jones… - … of the Royal …, 1998 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The annual growth of trees, as represented by a variety of ring–width, densitometric, or
chemical parameters, represents a combined record of different environmental forcings, one of …

[HTML][HTML] Pre-1866 extensions of the Southern Oscillation Index using early Indonesian and Tahitian meteorological readings

GP Können, PD Jones, MH Kaltofen… - Journal of …, 1998 - journals.ametsoc.org
… Close, AL Herceg, PD Jones, and HJ Simpson, 1996a: Mean sea level pressure indices of
the El Niño… PD Jones is supported by the US Department of Energy, Atmospheric and Climate …

The use of weather types and air flow indices for GCM downscaling

D Conway, PD Jones - Journal of Hydrology, 1998 - Elsevier
A variety of different methods have been proposed for downscaling large-scale General
Circulation Model (GCM) output to the time and space scales required for climate impact studies. …

Predicting rainfall statistics in England and Wales using atmospheric circulation variables

…, PE O'connell, PD Jones - … of Climatology: A …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Regression models are developed to predict point rainfall statistics, with potential application
to downscaling general circulation model (GCM) output for future climates. The models can …

Tree-ring based reconstructions of northern Patagonia precipitation since AD 1600

…, RD D'Arrigo, TT Veblen, PD Jones - The …, 1998 - journals.sagepub.com
Long-term reconstructions (400 years) of seasonal and annual precipitation variations were
developed for northern Patagonia east of the Andes using a new set of 16 tree ring-width …

Comparison of climate change scenario construction methodologies for impact assessment studies

T Mavromatis, PD Jones - Agricultural and forest meteorology, 1998 - Elsevier
This paper explores three important aspects of studies that assess the possible effects of
climatic change on agricultural productivity at regional spatial scales. First, long-term historic …