The downscaling procedure starts frominterpolation of the monthly
gridded data to specific locations of interest using an inverse distance
cubed weighting method. This is followed by a bias correction
between the observed and raw GCM monthly data – the detailed
description of bias correction is given by Liu and Zuo (2012). Daily
climate data are then generated for each location using a modified
stochastic weather generator (WGEN) (Richardson andWright,
1984). The parameters required to drivingWGEN are derived from
the monthly GCM data and daily historical climate data from 1889
to 2010, as described in Liu and Zuo (2012)