Characterizing half‐a‐degree difference: a review of methods for identifying regional climate responses to global warming targets

R James, R Washington… - Wiley …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The Paris Agreement long‐term global temperature goal refers to two global warming levels:
well below 2° C and 1.5° C above preindustrial. Regional climate signals at specific global …

Global and regional impacts differ between transient and equilibrium warmer worlds

AD King, TP Lane, BJ Henley, JR Brown - Nature Climate Change, 2020 - nature.com
There has recently been interest in understanding the differences between specific levels of
global warming, especially the Paris Agreement limits of 1.5° C and 2° C above pre …

The need for bottom-up assessments of climate risks and adaptation in climate-sensitive regions

D Conway, RJ Nicholls, S Brown, MGL Tebboth… - Nature Climate …, 2019 - nature.com
Studies of climate change at specific intervals of future warming have primarily been
addressed through top-down approaches using climate projections and modelled impacts …

Coordinated experiments for projections of regional climate change

F Giorgi, WJ Gutowski - Current Climate Change Reports, 2016 - Springer
We review coordinated efforts for producing regional climate projections through dynamical
and statistical downscaling tools driven by global climate model output. Such projections are …

Bridging the gap between impact assessment methods and climate science

F Cherubini, J Fuglestvedt, T Gasser… - … Science & Policy, 2016 - Elsevier
Life-cycle assessment and carbon footprint studies are widely used by decision makers to
identify climate change mitigation options and priorities at corporate and public levels …

An appraisal of downscaling methods used in climate change research

M Ekström, MR Grose… - … Reviews: Climate Change, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The term 'downscaling'refers to the process of translating information from global climate
model simulations to a finer spatial resolution. There are numerous methods by which this …

Differential climate impacts for policy-relevant limits to global warming: the case of 1.5 C and 2 C

CF Schleussner, TK Lissner, EM Fischer… - Earth system …, 2016 - esd.copernicus.org
Robust appraisals of climate impacts at different levels of global-mean temperature increase
are vital to guide assessments of dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate …

Added value in regional climate modeling

M Rummukainen - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Regional climate modeling is a dynamical downscaling technique applied to the results of
global climate models (GCMs) in order to acquire more information on climate simulations …

Origin, importance, and predictive limits of internal climate variability

F Lehner, C Deser - Environmental Research: Climate, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Adaptation to climate change has now become a necessity for many regions. Yet, adaptation
planning at regional scales over the next few decades is challenging given the …

Statistical downscaling and bias correction of climate model outputs for climate change impact assessment in the US northeast

KF Ahmed, G Wang, J Silander, AM Wilson… - Global and Planetary …, 2013 - Elsevier
Statistical downscaling can be used to efficiently downscale a large number of General
Circulation Model (GCM) outputs to a fine temporal and spatial scale. To facilitate regional …