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Research interests include climatology, African climates, and regional scale climate change and its implications for biophysical and human systems, downscaling global climate model data for regional applications.
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Recent Publications
Interrogating empirical-statistical downscaling
Hewitson, B. C., Daron, J., Crane, R. G., Zermoglio, M. F. & Jack, C., Feb 1 2014, In: Climatic Change. 122, 4, p. 539-554 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Downscaling reveals diverse effects of anthropogenic climate warming on the potential for local environments to support malaria transmission
Paaijmans, K. P., Blanford, J. I., Crane, R. G., Mann, M. E., Ning, L., Schreiber, K. V. & Thomas, M. B., Aug 2014, In: Climatic Change. 125, 3-4, p. 479-488 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
A vulnerability driven approach to identify adverse climate and land use change combinations for critical hydrologic indicator thresholds: Application to a watershed in Pennsylvania, USA
Singh, R., Wagener, T., Crane, R., Mann, M. E. & Ning, L., Apr 2014, In: Water Resources Research. 50, 4, p. 3409-3427 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Implications of temperature variation for malaria parasite development across Africa
Blanford, J. I., Blanford, S., Crane, R. G., Mann, M. E., Paaijmans, K. P., Schreiber, K. V. & Thomas, M. B., 2013, In: Scientific reports. 3, 1300.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Probabilistic projections of anthropogenic climate change impacts on precipitation for the mid-Atlantic region of the United States
Ning, L., Mann, M. E., Crane, R., Wagener, T., Najjar, R. G. & Singh, R., Aug 2012, In: Journal of Climate. 25, 15, p. 5273-5291 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Probabilistic projections of climate change for the mid-Atlantic region of the United States: Validation of precipitation downscaling during the historical era
Ning, L., Mann, M. E., Crane, R. & Wagener, T., Jan 2012, In: Journal of Climate. 25, 2, p. 509-526 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
A trading-space-for-time approach to probabilistic continuous streamflow predictions in a changing climate-accounting for changing watershed behavior
Singh, R., Wagener, T., Van Werkhoven, K., Mann, M. E. & Crane, R., 2011, In: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 15, 11, p. 3591-3603 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Consensus between GCM climate change projections with empirical downscaling: Precipitation downscaling over South Africa
Hewitson, B. C. & Crane, R. G., Aug 2006, In: International Journal of Climatology. 26, 10, p. 1315-1337 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Gridded area-averaged daily precipitation via conditional interpolation
Hewitson, B. C. & Crane, R. G., Jan 1 2005, In: Journal of Climate. 18, 1, p. 41-57 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Clustering and upscaling of station precipitation records to regional patterns using self-organizing maps (SOMs)
Crane, R. G. & Hewitson, B. C., Dec 5 2003, In: Climate Research. 25, 2, p. 95-107 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review