Physical scaling ( SP ) method is a statistical downscaling approach where model‐based climate data are downscaled taking into consideration large‐scale climate, elevation and land‐cover at the location of interest. In this study, the downscaling skills of an ensemble of SP method and its variants and Statistical DownScaling Model ( SDSM ) towards downscaling North American Regional Reanalysis ( NARR ) temperature data are com...

The objective of this study is to investigate the vulnerability of different land‐cover types to climate change. To this end, land‐cover specific temperature change factors are quantified for the southern Saskatchewan region using a novel statistical downscaling model: physical scaling ( SP ). SP model considers large‐scale climate and regional physical characteristics like land‐cover, elevation in its formulation and hence ca...