Climate change projection for the marsyangdi river basin, Nepal using statistical downscaling of GCM and its implications in geodisasters

Geoenvironmental Disasters

Table 3 Screened predictor variables for temperature and precipitation at Gorkha station

Predictand variables	Predictor variables (NCEP Reanalysis)	Partial R
Max. Temperature	500 hPa Geopotential height (ncepp500gl)	0.709
Max. Temperature	500 hPa Specific humidity (nceps500gl)	0.586
Min. Temperature	500 hPa Geopotential height (ncepp500gl)	0.773
	Surface Specific humidity (ncepshumgl)	0.783
	Air temperature at 2 m (nceptempgl)	0.865
Precipitation	Mean Sea Level Pressure (ncepmslpgk)	−0.183
	Surface meridional wind velocity (ncepp1_vgl)	0.115
	Total Precipitation (ncepprcpgl)	0.174