Guidelines for constructing climate scenarios

Authors

Philip Mote
Levi D. Brekke
Philip B. Duffy
Edwin P. Maurer, Santa Clara UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-2-2011

Publisher

American Geophysical Union / John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Abstract

Scientists and others from academia, government, and the private sector increasingly are using climate model outputs in research and decision support. For the most recent assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 18 global modeling centers contributed outputs from hundreds of simulations, coordinated through the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 3 (CMIP3), to the archive at the Program for Climate Model Diagnostics and Intercomparison (PCMDI; http://pcmdi3.llnl.gov) [Meehl et al., 2007]. Many users of climate model outputs prefer downscaled data—i.e., data at higher spatial resolution—to direct global climate model (GCM) outputs; downscaling can be statistical [e.g., Meehl et al., 2007] or dynamical [e.g., Mearns et al., 2009]. More than 800 users have obtained downscaled CMIP3 results from one such Web site alone (see http://gdo-dcp.ucllnl.org/downscaled cmip3_projections/, described by Meehl et al., [2007]).

Comments

Copyright © 2011 by the American Geophysical Union. AGU allows final articles to be placed in an institutional repository 6 months after publication.

Recommended Citation

P. Mote, L. Brekke, P. B. Duffy, and E. Maurer, 2011, Guidelines for constructing climate scenarios, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 92(31), 257, doi:10.1029/2011EO310001.