TY  - INPR
A1  - Bürger, Gerd
T1  - Comment on "Bias correction, quantile mapping, and downscaling: revisiting the inflation issue"
T2  - Journal of climate
N2  - In a recent paper, Maraun describes the adverse effects of quantile mapping on downscaling. He argues that when large-scale GCM variables are rescaled directly to small-scale fields or even station data, genuine small-scale covariability is lost and replaced by uniform variability inherited from the larger scales. This leads to a misrepresentation mainly of areal means and long-term trends. This comment acknowledges the former point, although the argument is relatively old, but disagrees with the latter, showing that grid-size long-term trends can be different from local trends. Finally, because it is partly incorrectly addressed, some clarification is added regarding the inflation issue, stressing that neither randomization nor inflation is free of unverified assumptions.
KW  - Climate change
KW  - Statistics
KW  - Climate variability
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00184.1
SN  - 0894-8755
SN  - 1520-0442
VL  - 27
IS  - 4
SP  - 1819
EP  - 1820
PB  - American Meteorological Soc.
CY  - Boston
ER  -