Regional climate downscaling: What's the point?

RA Pielke Sr, RL Wilby - Eos, Transactions American …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Dynamical and statistical downscaling of multidecadal global climate models provides finer
spatial resolution information for climate impact assessments [Wilby and Fowler, 2010] …

Climate downscaling: techniques and application

BC Hewitson, RG Crane - Climate Research, 1996 - int-res.com
Downscaling, or translation across scales, is a term adopted in recent years to describe a set
of techniques that relate local-and regional-scale climate variables to the larger scale …

Regional climate projections. Chapter 11

JH Christensen, B Hewitson, A Busuioc, A Chen, X Gao… - 2007 - osti.gov
Increasingly reliable regional climate change projections are now available for many
regions of the world due to advances in modelling and understanding of the physical …

Statistical downscaling in climatology

JT Schoof - Geography Compass, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Downscaling is a term that has been used to describe the range of methods that are used to
infer regional‐scale or local‐scale climate information from coarsely resolved climate …

[HTML][HTML] Regional climate models add value to global model data: a review and selected examples

F Feser, B Rockel, H von Storch… - Bulletin of the …, 2011 - journals.ametsoc.org
An important challenge in current climate modeling is to realistically describe small-scale
weather statistics, such as topographic precipitation and coastal wind patterns, or regional …

[HTML][HTML] Use-inspired, process-oriented GCM Selection: Prioritizing models for regional dynamical downscaling

N Goldenson, LR Leung, LO Mearns… - Bulletin of the …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Dynamical downscaling is a crucial process for providing regional climate information for
broad uses, using coarser-resolution global models to drive higher-resolution regional …

Regional climate downscaling with prior statistical correction of the global climate forcing

A Colette, R Vautard, M Vrac - Geophysical Research Letters, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
A novel climate downscaling methodology that attempts to correct climate simulation biases
is proposed. By combining an advanced statistical bias correction method with a dynamical …

A review on regional dynamical downscaling in intraseasonal to seasonal simulation/prediction and major factors that affect downscaling ability

Y Xue, Z Janjic, J Dudhia, R Vasic, F De Sales - Atmospheric research, 2014 - Elsevier
Regional climate models (RCMs) have been developed and extensively applied for
dynamically downscaling coarse resolution information from different sources, such as …

[图书][B] Downscaling techniques for high-resolution climate projections: From global change to local impacts

R Kotamarthi, K Hayhoe, D Wuebbles, LO Mearns… - 2021 - books.google.com
Downscaling is a widely used technique for translating information from large-scale climate
models to the spatial and temporal scales needed to assess local and regional climate …

Dynamical downscaling of regional climate: A review of methods and limitations

Z Xu, Y Han, Z Yang - Science China Earth Sciences, 2019 - Springer
The traditional dynamical downscaling (TDD) method employs continuous integration of
regional climate models (RCM) with the general circulation model (GCM) providing the initial …