Climate downscaling: techniques and application

Statistical Downscaling Techniques for Global Climate Model Simulations of Temperature and Precipitation with Application to Water Resources Planning Studies

An Evaluation of Statistical and Dynamical Techniques for Downscaling Local Climate

An assessment is made of downscaling estimates of screen temperature and precipitation observed at 976 European stations during 1983–94. A statistical downscaling technique, in which local values are inferred from observed atmospheric predictor variables, is compared against two dynamical downscaling techniques, based on the use of the screen temperature or precipitation simulated at the neares...

CORDEX – An international climate downscaling initiative

The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) is backing an international initiative called the COordinated Regional climate Downscaling EXperiment (CORDEX). The goal of the initiative is to provide regionally downscaled climate projections for most land regions of the globe, as a compliment to the global climate model projections performed within the fifth Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (...

Convolutional Neural Networks for Climate Downscaling

A key challenge in climate modeling is the assessment of the impact of global climate variables on regional weather measurements such as temperature and precipitation. This assessment is usually done by downscaling the output of (coarse resolution) global climate models to regional (high resolution) predictions. There are two independent downscaling pathways: dynamic and statistical. Dynamic do...

Downscaling Simulations of future Global Climate with Application to Hydrologic Modeling

This study approaches the problem of downscaling global climate model simulations with an emphasis on validating and selecting global models. The downscaling method makes minimal, physically-based corrections to the global simulation while preserving much of the statistics of interannual variability in the climate model. Differences among the downscaled results for simulations of present-day cl...