Abstract: As laid out in the previous chapter, the quality of regional climate projections depends on the performance of the driving GCM (and potentially RCM) and the downscaling model in both present and future climate. GCM and RCM performance has been captured in Section 8.5 – this chapter focuses on the performance of different statistical downscaling methods. In Part II we presented the PP, MOS and weather generator approaches. Along with these, we also explained how the structure of these approaches determines their skill and limitations (Sections 11.3, 12.5 and 13.3). Here we will discuss their de facto skill to reproduce the statistical climate aspects (Section 4.2) of observational data. A broad synthesis, however, will be given in the end of this chapter.
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-12-27
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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