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5 - What Is the Purpose of Regional Climate Downscaling?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2017

Robert L. Wilby
Robert L. Wilby
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Loughborough University
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Climate Change in Practice
Topics for Discussion with Group Exercises
 , pp. 67 - 84
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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Street, R.B., Steynor, A., Bowyer, P. and Humphrey, K. 2009. Delivering and using the UK climate projections 2009. Weather, 64, 227–231.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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5.4 Further Reading

Benestad, R.E., Chen, D. and Hanssen-Bauer, I. 2008. Empirical-Statistical Downscaling. World Scientific, Singapore and London.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wilby, R.L. and Fowler, H.J. 2010. Regional climate downscaling. In Fung, C.F., Lopez, A. and New, M. (eds.), Modelling the Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources. Wiley- Blackwell, Chichester.Google Scholar

5.5 Other Resources

Atmospheric Circulation Classification and Regional Downscaling (ACCORD) www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/projects/accord/

Bias-corrected CMIP3 and CMIP5 climate and hydrology projections http://gdo-dcp.ucllnl.org/downscaled_cmip_projections/dcpInterface.html

Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) http://wcrp-cordex.ipsl.jussieu.fr/

ENSEMBLES http://ensembles-eu.metoffice.com/index.html

North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP) www.narccap.ucar.edu/

Oxford Research Encyclopedias: downscaling climate information http://climatescience.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228620-e-27

PRECIS regional climate modelling system www.metoffice.gov.uk/precis/

Prediction of Regional scenarios and Uncertainties for Defining EuropeaN Climate change risks and Effects (PRUDENCE) http://prudence.dmi.dk/

Statistical and Regional dynamical Downscaling of Extremes for European regions (STARDEX) www.cru.uea.ac.uk/projects/stardex/

UK Climate Projections (UKCP09 and UKCP18) http://ukclimateprojections.metoffice.gov.uk/

Validating and Integrating Downscaling Methods for Climate Change Research (VALUE: COST Action ES1102) www.value-cost.eu/

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