Projecting Future Climate Change Scenarios Using Three Bias-Correction Methods

Table 1

Statistical analysis of the observed and bias-corrected daily precipitation for bias correction and validation.

	Baseline period (1983–1997)			Validation period (1998–2012)
	CF	QM	CF + QM	CF	QM	CF + QM
Jan.–Mar.
	0.899	0.939	0.914	0.972	0.984	0.986
NSE	0.855	0.877	0.904	0.939	0.510	0.879
RMSE (mm)	1.659	1.527	1.352	0.928	2.630	1.306
Apr.–Jun.
	0.977	0.991	0.994	0.990	0.969	0.983
NSE	0.971	0.502	0.993	0.839	0.931	0.887
RMSE (mm)	1.817	7.546	0.899	4.676	3.067	3.919
Jul.–Sep.
	0.958	0.916	0.998	0.859	0.852	0.922
NSE	0.887	0.860	0.998	0.703	0.700	0.916
RMSE (mm)	8.166	9.113	1.176	17.501	17.579	9.287
Oct.–Dec.
	0.975	0.978	0.969	0.981	0.990	0.990
NSE	0.968	0.508	0.966	0.709	−1.708	0.496
RMSE (mm)	1.072	4.180	1.097	2.055	6.273	2.708