regional climate. For instance, the local and regional aspect of a climate change is stressed
in the US Strategic Plan for the Climate Change Science Program (CCSP)(http://www.
climate‐science. gov/Library/stratplan2003/default. htm). Global climate models (GCMs) are
important tools for studying climate change and making projections for the future. Although
GCMs provide realistic representations of large‐scale aspects of climate, they generally do …